If you think budget cuts at your job suck
(New Times is a considering a writing-by-candlelight,
tent-office setup) try being a Miami-Dade public defender. Thanks to shrinking
state court funds - down in 44 million
in the past two years - these burnt-out servants
of the poor, tired, huddled masses are crunching about 500 cases each at any
given moment. (Four times as many as Broward PDs.)
With a 16 percent caseload increase in the
past eight months, crime is going up as lawyers are
Looks like Phil Davis is finally heading to the pen.​The ex-Miami judge, who wriggled out of jail time in a federal sting operation in the early '90s by admitting a raging cocaine habit, was found guilty of fraud today.Prosecutors built a case against Davis involving a non-profit he founded in 1997, called the Miami-Dade Residential College. They convinced a jury that Davis used a sham employment corporation to funnel grant money into his pockets to the tune of more than $80,000.Davis, 55, fac
