Legal Action Should doctors be allowed to help patients end their lives?  That's the question being presented in a mock trial to a group of students in the Honors Pre-Law Program at American Heritage School in Plantation.  Former Broward County prosecutor Ken Padowitz, director of the program, is setting up a portable courtroom for the trial in which students play the roles of judge, prosecutor, witnesses, jury and defense attorney. In the case before the future lawyers, a doctor has been [...]

She hired Padowitz months later because she was tired of the delays and wanted a top attorney outside Collier County.   "Something Smells to High Holy Hell" - Ken Padowitz NAPLES, Sep 6, 2008 - A letter contending three innocent men were arrested on armed robbery and beating charges in a crime involving a high-ranking Collier sheriff's official's son — who is Sheriff Don Hunter's godson — has resulted in the prosecutor dropping charges against two of the men. The charges were dropped [...]

Lake Worth Teacher Acquitted In Scuffle February 11, 2005|By Jon Burstein Staff Writer -  Sun-Sentinel -   A first-grade teacher wept Thursday night after a jury needed just 33 minutes to acquit her of charges that she drove a short distance with a Broward sheriff's deputy's hand wedged in her car window. As the verdict was read, a sobbing Lisa Leo buried her face in her attorney's shoulder while her family and friends celebrated in the courtroom's front row with hugs and [...]

Shooting Ruled A Murder Children Watched Mother's Slaying July 26, 1995|By TREVOR JENSEN Staff Writer "I'm going to the gas chamber," Peter Samuels predicted after he fired a fatal shot at point-blank range into his estranged wife's head two years ago. There is no gas chamber in Florida. But Samuels' prediction that the slaying would lead to his death could come true after a jury found him guilty on Tuesday of first-degree murder. Jurors will reconvene on Sept. 18 to make [...]

VIDEO AND STORY CLICK HERE HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Child neglect charges have been dropped against the mother of a baby who was found buried in her Hallandale Beach backyard. Brittany Sierra was arrested in January 2013 after it was discovered her son, Dontrell Melvin, had been missing since 2011.Prosecutors said Sierra was initially charged with child neglect, because the state only had knowledge of one phone call she made to police to find her son. It was later revealed that Sierrra had made four [...]

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Attorney Ken Padowitz says Prosecutors correct to drop cases from alleged racist cops - (Video) FT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – The Broward State Attorney’s Office has dropped more than three dozen criminal cases connected to four former Fort Lauderdale Police officers caught up in a racism scandal. Prosecutors have been reviewing the arrests made by former officers Alex Alvarez, James Wells, Jason Holding and Christopher Sousa. On Thursday, prosecutors confirmed that they plan to drop 17 Misdemeanor cases where the officers were the main officer involved in [...]

Stephanie Kraft (2nd left) speaks to her husband (middle) Mitchell Kraft and Kraft's attorney Ken Padowitz in court March 10 in Fort Lauderdale.   Taimy Alvarez, Sun Sentinel

It took a Broward jury less than two hours on Tuesday to find Mitchell Kraft not guilty of trying to use his wife's position on the Broward School Board to benefit a pair of corrupt developers. Kraft, 62, held his breath as the verdicts were read shortly before 5 p.m. He was charged with bribery, unlawful compensation and conspiracy. His wife Stephanie Kraft was acquitted of the same charges last December, but in her case, the jury found her guilty of [...]