Only in Florida...shock jocks radio affairs, and flirting paralegals, entrapment DUI!!! Oh, my!
First, two local (and crazy) radio show hosts filed a defamation suit when one's wife had a video of being in bed with the other posted on the internet: http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/civil/closing-statements-begin-in-shock-jock-trial/1272915
The only thing it didn't have, according to jurors: evidence that Bubba the Love Sponge Clem defamed his radio rival, Todd "MJ Kelli" Schnitt. Six jurors who sat through two weeks of testimony rejected each one of Schnitt's accusations. They found nothing Clem said defamatory.
Not when he called Todd "MJ" Schnitt's wife a "whore."
The case went on for FIVE years!! Everyone who wanted to saw the bedroom video.
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Then one of the attorneys was given a DUI - but it turns out he was set up by a flirty paralegal from the opposing law firm who asked to be driven home and was stopped by a cop making a planned arrest!! The cop was fired:
http://tbo.com/2-tampa-police-officers-fired-1-of-them-arrested-20130927/
TAMPA — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has not yet completed its investigation into a DUI arrest later labeled a setup, but Tampa police Chief Jane Castor said she had received enough information from the federal agency to fire Tampa police Sgt. Ray Fernandez on Friday.
“I can’t convey the level of disappointment that I felt when the FBI investigation revealed that Sgt. Fernandez’s role was significantly more than he conveyed to me, the organization and to the entire criminal justice system,” Castor said. “We are taking assertive action today, prior to the decision of the FBI, because we owe it to the integrity of the department and to the trust of the community that we serve.”
Fernandez, who had been the supervisor of the department’s DUI unit, was fired after an investigation into the events leading to the Jan. 23 arrest of lawyer Philip Campbell, who was in the middle of a high-profile defamation trial between dueling radio hosts “MJ” Todd Schnitt and Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.
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Now there's a trial to disbar the attorneys who set up the DUI sting, and the ex-husband of the paralegal who did the flirting has a cell phone confession on her, but the judge may not let it in evidence, but everyone in the world knows about it!!
Update: Judge orders a break in trial over DUI set-up tactic during Bubba-Schnitt defamation suit
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/tampa-dui-set-up-trial-begins/2229136
Attorney's Office, one day after trial in January of 2013, Campbell went to Malio's, a steak house bar in downtown Tampa, where he encountered Adams & Diaco paralegal Melissa Personius. Witnesses said she flirted with him and lied to him about where she worked, telling him she was employed at Trenam Kemker, another Tampa law firm.
Phone records would later show that over the next few hours, she texted and called her bosses multiple times. They, in turn, texted and called each other.
Although Campbell intended to walk home from the bar, he later agreed to drive Personius in her car. Minutes after he got behind the wheel, he was pulled over by Tampa police Sgt. Ray Fernandez — a close family friend of Adams & Diaco attorney Filthaut. Records showed that Filthaut and Fernandez had exchanged multiple calls and emails that evening, too.