This is an admittedly cynical guess, but do you suppose local mouthpiece Johnny Trevena's efforts to get Gov. Charlie Crist to stick his nose into the Sabrina Aisenberg case has about as much of a chance of succeeding as Jeff Garcia offering to pick up Brett Favre at the airport? ...more

August 2, 2008

To understand how this brouhaha might have begun, you have to appreciate that criminals, especially bad guys doing time in jail, can be some very, very weird people. Yes, it's incredible, but true. ...more

July 29, 2008

WAUCHULA — Trucker Jean Claude Meus' fight to have his 15-year prison sentence overturned or reduced received a big boost Wednesday afternoon. In a written opinion, Judge Douglas A. Wallace, of the Florida Second District Court of Appeals, suggested that Meus received ineffective counsel during his postconviction trial in 2005 at the Hardee County Courthouse. "(The opinion) was written very precisely," said defense attorney John H. Trevena, of Largo, who represents Meus. "Given its wording, I believe that it will give Mr. Meus an opportunity for a new trial." Meus is currently sitting in a state prison after being convicted of vehicular homicide in 2003 for the much publicized death of Nona Moore, 40, and her 8-year-old daughter Lindsey. The accident happened in 2001. During Meus' criminal trial, prosecutors said that he fell asleep at the wheel of his tractor-trailer, driving through a stop sign and eventually overturning his vehicle onto Moore's van at Seven Mile Point, just outside of Wauchula. Prosecutors maintained that Meus fell asleep shortly before the accident, but Meus maintained throughout his trial that a vehicle had cut him off, forcing him to swerve into Moore's van. ...more

November 30, 2007