May 17, 2012in Florida Criminal Law, Florida Lawyer

Law officers release evidence in Trayvon Martin homicide

A trove of evidence collected for George Zimmerman’s highly anticipated second-degree murder trial was made public Thursday, including an autopsy report documenting Trayvon Martin’s single gunshot in the chest.

Special prosecutor Angela B. Corey, the state attorney for Duval, Clay and Nassau counties, created a special website for media to access 67 CDs’ worth of information collected in the wake of Trayvon’s death.

The documents include reports from five Sanford police investigators and recorded statements from 23 witnesses. One witness, records show, was interviewed five times.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/17/2804442/law-officers-set-to-release-evidence.html#storylink=cpy
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May 15, 2012in Florida Criminal Law, Florida Lawyer

31 arrested in South Florida sex-predator sting

Authorities say Shawn Gray, an attorney and lieutenant commander with the U.S. Coast Guard Judge Advocate General Corps, drove from his home in Miami to Sarasota recently to meet an 8-year-old girl he had met in a chat room.

But when Gray arrived in Sarasota County, to a house where he thought the child would be home alone, he was instead greeted by Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office deputies who arrested him.

“He had hoped to have sex with an 8-year-old girl,” Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight said of Gray, who was charged with use of a computer and traveling to seduce, solicit or entice a child to commit sex acts.

Gray is being charged with a second-degree felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, said Chief Assistant State Attorney Ed Brodsky.

Gray was one of 31 nabbed in a six-day sting called Operation Intercept, an attempt to protect Manatee and Sarasota counties’ children from online predators, Knight said Monday during a news conference at the sheriff’s office in downtown Sarasota.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/15/2800163/31-arrested-in-south-florida-sex.html#storylink=cpy
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May 14, 2012in Florida Criminal Law, Florida Lawyer

Murder trial for Aventura developer begins Monday

Opening statements are set to begin Monday in the murder trial of Adam Kaufman, 39, an Aventura developer accused of strangling his wife.

Miami-Dade prosecutors will tell the 12-person jury that Kaufman strangled Eleonora Kaufman, 33, in the bathroom of their Aventura house, then lied by claiming she fell and hit her neck on a bathroom magazine holder.

Eleonora Kaufman’s death remained unclassified for months until Dr. Bruce A. Hyma, Miami-Dade’s chief medical examiner, ruled she died from mechanical asphyxiation.

Arrested in 2009, Kaufman is charged with second-degree murder and faces up to life in prison if convicted.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/14/2798309/murder-trial-for-aventura-developer.html#storylink=cpy
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May 10, 2012in Florida Criminal Law, Florida Lawyer

Woman indicted in Key Largo bludgeoning death of husband

Denise Bozarth, accused of bludgeoning her husband to death aboard a Key Largo houseboat in 2007, has been formally indicted by a grand jury on a count of premeditated murder.

Bozarth, 39, remains in custody in the Monroe County jail with no bond allowed. She was arrested in March after an investigation lasting nearly five years.

Assistant State Attorney Theresa Hunnewell presented evidence to the grand jury in a one-day session last Friday at the Plantation Key courthouse.

The body of Edward Bozarth, 62, was discovered in July 2007, stuffed into a canvas sack concealed inside the engine compartment of his boat, named Screw U 2, docked at Gilbert’s Marina.

Edward Bozarth had been killed by “blunt force trauma to the head” about a week before the grim discovery, the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office concluded.

The couple had been married for nine years and had two children.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/10/2792582/woman-indicted-in-key-largo-bludgeoning.html#storylink=cpy
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May 9, 2012in Florida Criminal Law, Florida Lawyer

Tundidor jury verdict: Guilty on all accounts

Jurors in the first-degree murder trial of a Plantation man accused of the brutal home invasion murder of his landlord two years ago returned guilty verdicts on all 10 felony charges against him early Wednesday.

Randy W. Tundidor, 45, now must enter the second phase of his trial, likely to begin in September when jurors will decide whether he will be sentenced to Death Row or life in prison for the murder of Joseph Morrissey, a Nova Southeastern University professor and researcher who rented a town house to Tundidor.

Morrissey was stabbed to death and then his house was set on fire while his wife and young child remained inside.

Linda Morrissey, the victim’s widow, did not express emotion after a court clerk read aloud the jury’s verdict.

 

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/09/2790845/tundidor-jury-verdict-guilty-on.html#storylink=cpy
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May 8, 2012in Florida Criminal Law, Florida Lawyer

Jurors will deliberate Tuesday in NSU professor’s murder trial

Jurors will begin deliberations Tuesday in the first-degree murder trial of a Plantation man accused of the brutal home-invasion murder of his landlord two years ago.

Broward County prosecutors and defense attorneys delivered closing arguments Monday in the two-week-old trial of Randy W. Tundidor, 45, who is charged with stabbing to death Joseph Morrissey, a Nova Southeastern University professor and researcher who rented a townhouse to Tundidor and his family.

Tundidor faces the death penalty if jurors find him guilty. He also is charged with two counts of attempted murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and arson

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/07/2788571/jurors-will-deliberate-tuesday.html#storylink=cpy
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May 7, 2012in Florida Criminal Law, Florida Lawyer

Con man posed as doctor, lawyer and rabbi, Broward authorities say

He’s on probation for practicing law without a license. He’s charged with carrying a foreign diplomat’s passport. He got a badge from a Broward hospital  identifying him as a doctor and clergyman. His second wife believed he was a  rabbi.

But David Vyner only has one true profession: con artist, according to the Broward sheriff’s detective who spent months piecing together the Armenian immigrant’s life in South Florida.

“One day he becomes a lawyer. One day he becomes a doctor. One day he becomes a rabbi,” said Detective  John Calabro. “He has delusions of grandeur.”

 

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/fl-david-vyner-arrest-20120506,0,2506526.story

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May 7, 2012in Florida Criminal Law, Florida Lawyer

Jury selection on Monday for murder trial of Aventura developer

Jury selection gets under way Monday in the trial of Aventura developer Adam Kaufman, who is accused of  murdering his wife five years ago.

The case has attracted national attention. CBS’  48 Hours, NBC’s  Dateline and Court TV are all in a Miami courtroom to cover the trial.

The case began on November 2007 when police said a hysterical Kaufman called 911 and said that he had awakened after a night of sleep to find his wife, Lina, in the bathroom, unconscious, her neck draped over a bar on a magazine rack.

More than a year and a half later, Aventura police charged Kaufman with murder.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/06/2786851/national-media-in-miami-courtroom.html#storylink=cpy
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