Janelle Irwin TaylorSeptember 12, 2019
6min890
Powers allegedly shot and killed 31-year-old Derek Omasta.
Tag: first degree murderMike Johnson. Image via AP.
Janelle Irwin TaylorSeptember 12, 2019
Scott PowersJuly 30, 2019
4min728
Makes call after struggling over case of 13-year-old charged in shooting death
Scott PowersJuly 17, 2017
2min246
Gov. Rick Scott has reassigned the cases of two women accused of abusing a three-year-old Orange County boy to death, transferring their cases from Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala to Ocala’s State Attorney Brad King. The transfers are like more than 20 others the governor has reassigned from Ayala to King since March, when Ayala, the […]
Scott PowersApril 26, 20172min315
The Florida Supreme Court denied the first attempt by Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala to win back first-degree murder cases that Gov. Rick Scott reassigned to another state attorney. In denying Ayala’s emergency, non-routine petition to overturn Scott’s executive orders reassigning the cases to Ocala’s State Attorney Brad King, the Supreme Court concluded that the […]
Scott PowersApril 11, 20178min468
Arguing Gov. Rick Scott had no legal basis to strip murder cases from her jurisdiction, Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala filed challenges Tuesday morning in both the Florida Supreme Court and federal court. In complaints filed by her attorney, Roy Austin Jr. of Washington D.C., Ayala contends that she legally exercised prosecutorial discretion in deciding not […]
Scott PowersApril 7, 2017
3min200
An attorney representing embattled Orlando State Attorney Aramis Ayala has initiated the process to challenge Gov. Rick Scott‘s murder case reassignment orders by asking State Attorney General Pam Bondi to petition the court on Ayala’s behalf. Ayala intends to challenge the legality of Scott’s now 23 and counting executive orders stripping 9th Judicial Circuit first-degree murder cases from […]
Les NeuhausMarch 15, 2017
6min832
The father of a 7-week-old girl told police he pinched her cheeks and squeezed her ribs to make her “tough.” Instead, the St. Petersburg infant died in September after suffering a brain hemorrhage, fractured ribs, broken clavicle and split lip, according to police documents obtained by FloridaPolitics.com. J’Lena Dillard was taken to John’s Hopkins All […]