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Elmore Leonard used to write in subplots like this in his Florida novels - mostly as SAP.
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Holy cow. Not even Carl Hiassen could concoct a yarn this tawdry and bizarre (though he could probably make it just as funny). There are some crazy messed up people down there in Florida, and from the sound of it a few of them are going to have justice served.
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I was writing my Carl Hiassen reference while you were comparing this to Elmore Leonard. You may have the better case. Truth really can be stranger than fiction.
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This sounds like a subplot from “The Good Wife.” I feel dirty just reading the story and I am a lawyer.
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Hmmm No you guys are wrong. This is vintage John D. MacDonald: sun, sea, sand, palm trees, beer-can architecture, nubile young woman, scheming lawyers, and a redneck thrown in for local color.
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Alec Baldwin got busted?
Hmmm No you guys are wrong. This is vintage John D. MacDonald: sun, sea,
sand, palm trees, beer-can architecture, nubile young woman, scheming
lawyers, and a redneck thrown in for local color.
John MacDonald is awesome.
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Three lawyers losing their licenses. This is how the system is supposed to work.
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Aw, I thought it was early enough that I could rewrite the entry before anyone commented.
Here’s what I should have said.
…Florida coastal city, scheming lawyers, female shill, crooked cop, and a redneck thrown in for local color.
I’ve always been a voracious reader but have become dismayed (and in some cases disgusted) with the quality of writing these days. A few years ago I started rereading old favorites that I had read decades earlier. It has been a mixed blessing. In some cases I have wondered why my young self ever thought a book great. Ahhh, but the upside is reading an author like MacDonald and rediscovering those lovely passages of descriptions that make you recognize a person or place as someone you’ve known or some place you’ve been .
TPM:
Clem once gained national attention and criticism for castrating a boar live on the air.
Not that I would want to watch it, but I’m a little perplexed as to how or why that stunt would work on the radio.
I mean, how would you even know it was a reaI castration? And where’s the entertainment value in listening to a pig grunt and squeal on the radio?
Of course that last question applies equally well to my puzzlement over Rush Limbaugh’s popularity too.
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No surprise here, living in Fl I wonder if the judge will be as corrupt as the lawyers.
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Unfortunately, it’s Florida, justice can be bought.
And I am hearing the Olbermann “Florida” music intro.
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This is an ethics case brought by the Florida Bar against the three lawyers. I wonder what happened to the paralegal. I hope she was brought up on serious charges. If the DUI had stuck, this man’s life would have been ruined. She’s also a scumbag.
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MacDonald is awesome but this plot reminded me of Gold Coast, a 2002 novel by Elmore Leonard, right from the jump. All the references – MacDonald, Leonard, Hiassen – are apt. (Never seen The Good Wife.)
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Atticus Finch this isn’t. But mark my words, someone’s going to turn this into a movie. Too good of a story not to.
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Shoot-- there was good money to have been made simply televising this trial.
Lotta’ juicy aspects.
jw1
No one has anything on Florida when it comes to corruption. We have crooks from all over the world and country come here to steal, lie and cheat and then they can even get elected to office afterwards. What a country huh?
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“This is an ethics case brought by the Florida Bar against the three lawyers. I wonder what happened to the paralegal. I hope she was brought up on serious charges. If the DUI had stuck, this man’s life would have been ruined. She’s also a scumbag.”
She’ll probably be the only one to face a penalty. The men will get off scott free to continue on with their lucrative careers. The Florida Bar rarely disciplines lawyers. They let them continue on their merry way harming people. They only care about dues being paid otherwise they could care less. Same with the people who oversee making sure contractors don’t destroy people’s homes. As long as the contractor has a license he can do whatever he wants including nothing even though you paid him.
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