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...authorities must act. Lengthening criminal court dockets and ever more crowded jails have prompted a few state courts to impose deadlines after which charges against an untried defendant must be dropped. Last winter the Florida Supreme Court handed down its own time standards, but the initial result was what Dade County Criminal Court Judge Paul Baker called a "sea of confusion...
Reverse Pressure. The principal impact came in Dade County (Miami), which suffered from the worst backlog. Two months ago the state received a new shock. A middle-aged busboy accused of molesting a ten-year-old boy was set loose when the time limit ran out. In fact, since March more than 100 defendants in the county, including two accused of assault with intent to murder, have been freed. The public pressure that started the train of events has turned massively against the speedy-trial deadlines...
...reckoning, be Governor of his sprawling, complex state. His Pensacola hometown is considered something of a no-man's land far from the madding Democratic vote centers of Southern Florida. His opponents in last year's Democratic primaries were State Senate President John Mathews, Attorney General Earl Faircloth and Dade County Mayor Chuck Hall, three of the best-known men in the state. In a high-rolling state that likes politicos with pizazz, Askew is a nonsmoking teetotaler who devotes most of his spare time to Presbyterian Church activities. Further, he ran on a platform of substantial tax reform that...
PETROLEUM AND PETROCHEMICALS. As well as owning a refinery in Panama, Ludwig is a partner in development of a refinery and petrochemicals complex in Dade County...
...ideas are nebulous, but we are working at them, and we are a very excited group," Dade W. Moeller, professor of Engineering in Environmental Health and temporary chairman of the consortium's board of directors, said yesterday...