Howard Finkelstein

A quantity of crack cocaine about the size of a small marble disappeared from the Broward Sheriff's Office crime lab last year, an evidentiary problem that was never disclosed to the people prosecuting and defending a juvenile in a drug case. Now, the...

Last week: The story of the week and perhaps the future of America is that our government, in the name of national security, has been snooping into news agencies’ emails and phone calls and now appears to be snooping into other’s private...

The justice system is cracking down on crooks who break into people's homes and businesses in Broward County. Starting this week, defendants arrested on burglary charges are no longer allowed to post bail and go free without first coming before a judge....

Broward Circuit Judge Matthew Destry's recent foray into the Twitter social networking site has ruffled the feathers of Public Defender Howard Finkelstein, who is questioning whether a judge should be tweeting from the bench. Most of the messages sent...

The takeaway from Diana Wasserman-Rubin's misdemeanor plea deal: Crime pays, especially for politicians who abuse the public trust. Broward State Attorney Mike Satz and his corruption prosecutors took pity on a woman ravaged by illness, rolling over...

The takeaway from Diana Wasserman-Rubin's misdemeanor plea deal: Crime pays, especially for politicians who abuse the public trust. Once again, Broward State Attorney Mike Satz comes up looking soft on political corruption. And just who is Miami-Dade...

When jurors decided last week that two retired police officers should pay $7 million for framing a mentally challenged Broward teen for a murder that sent him to prison for close to 26 years, it set off a strong response. Dozens of Sun Sentinel readers...

When Anthony Caravella went to take a lie-detector test with Broward Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Tony Fantigrassi in 1983, the mentally challenged 15-year-old was considered a witness to a homicide. Four hours later, he was a suspect. The teen had...

Nothing like some good outrage for the holiday season. The cases involving notorious South Florida deadly drivers John Goodman and Ryan LeVin have provided plenty. When I heard that Goodman had been allowed to return to his Wellington mansion to......

It's not just Wellington polo magnate John Goodman who'll be home for the holidays. Ryan LeVin, another notorious South Florida deadly driver, has been allowed to travel to his wealthy family's suburban Chicago estate to be with his ailing father. LeVin,...

Una investigación relacionada con un programa de Reality TV de la oficina del jefe de la policía de Broward ha dado lugar a la publicación de la lista de un fiscal estatal con más de 100 agentes y ex agentes de policía, cuyos testimonios pueden ser...