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  • Broward Cops Must Pay $7M To Man They Framed and Wrongfully Convicted Two former Broward Sheriff deputies should pay a man $7 million for framing him in a brutal rape and murder, a jury said. After a five-week trial in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, jurors returned a verdict unanimously finding that former policer officers William Mantesta and George Pierson framed Anthony Caravella, a mentally challenged 15...
  • Supreme Court Rules Dog Sniff Case Smells Last week the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Florida v. Jardines, a case involving police use of a drug-sniffing dog on the front porch of a home to detect marijuana growing inside. The Court held that “the government’s use of trained police dogs to investigate the home and its immediate surroundings is a ‘search’ within...