Scott PowersMay 1, 2022
4min0
Thirty other Central Florida Circuit judges are returned without election opposition.
Tag: Florida’s 5th Judicial Circuit
Scott PowersMay 1, 2022Scott PowersOctober 25, 2021
8min1144
An FDLE probe resulted in a report urging the State Attorney to seek dismissals.
Scott PowersNovember 21, 2019
4min798
Ryan Williams is running against Deb Barra in the State Attorney contest
Scott PowersMarch 8, 2019
5min542
Aramis Ayala indicated she is fine with Ron DeSantis keeping the cases with Brad King.
Scott PowersFebruary 5, 2019
6min832
Ryan Williams charged State Attorney Aramis Ayala with politics and ego.
Scott PowersJune 8, 2017
5min254
The Florida Supreme Court has remanded another murder case death penalty from Orlando, that of Bessman Okafor, and Gov. Rick Scott quickly reassigned it away from Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala. The move came with swift intervention from state Rep. Bob Cortes of Altamonte Springs, who asked the governor to keep the case from going […]
Scott PowersMay 4, 2017
6min361
In a friend of the court brief bound to raise state attorneys’ eyebrows throughout Florida, the Florida House is arguing that prosecutors have no discretion with regard to capital punishment, that the state Legislature’s intent was to rest all discretion with juries. The House filed the brief in the Florida Supreme Court case of Orlando’s State Attorney […]
Scott PowersApril 26, 2017
2min315
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 21, 2017
5min377
A group of more than 40 former Florida Supreme Court justices, and judges, prosecutors and legal officials from throughout the country are filing an amicus brief supporting Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala in her power-struggle with Gov. Rick Scott, contending that the issues in their court battles are of national importance. “By seeking to remove […]
Scott PowersApril 3, 2017
4min621
Gov. Rick Scott has stripped 21 more first-degree murder cases from Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala and reassigned them to Ocala’s State Attorney Brad King to prosecute. In 21 new executive orders decrying Ayala’s announced policy to not pursue the death penalty in any cases in her 9th Judicial Circuit, Scott declared his “grave concerns […]