#Miami dade criminal docket trial#

Acevedo claimed the commissioners targeted him for not carrying out their “personal agendas and vendettas.”

By January of 2022, Acevedo filed a lawsuit in federal court against Miami, City Manager Art Noriega and Commissioners Carollo, Alex Diaz de la Portilla and Manolo Reyes. Acevedo allegations cover same groundĬhief among Acevedo’s allegations was that several commissioners were corrupt and had interfered with police matters. That was some 18 months ago, long after Fuller first paid the office a series of visits. Shortly before Acevedo was forced out in October 2021 by commissioners in a move led by Carollo - after a two-day circus-like hearing during which he was ripped for not understanding Miami’s Cuban community and for wearing a Elvis costume too tightly - he went to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office with a handful of complaints about commission members. Prosecutors then decided to drop those charges rather than retry him. A jury acquitted Gillum of the false-statement charge and a federal judge declared a mistrial on fraud charges after the jury failed to reach an agreement on them.

#Miami dade criminal docket trial#

Markus, for instance, successfully defended former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum in a recent corruption trial over allegations that he lied to FBI agents and steered political contributions to personal accounts during his 2018 run for governor. More difficult to make criminal casesīringing criminal charges against politicians is more difficult, legal experts say, particularly when there is no crystal-clear pay-for-play evidence. They successfully argued that Carollo had tried to ruin their reputations, damaged their businesses and violated their First Amendment rights simply because they had backed a political opponent of the commissioner in a run-off election. The complaint brought by Fuller and his business partner, Martin Pinilla, also, in essence, hinged on a free-speech issue.

But legal experts told the Herald that the bar for winning a criminal case is much higher than a civil lawsuit - proof beyond a reasonable doubt instead of a compelling preponderance of evidence.