Lawyers sidebar Posted on 25 September 2009 Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente, center, shares a moment with University of Miami School of Law Dean Patricia D. White, left, and Bruce J. Winick, Silver-Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, during the dedication ceremony for the school’s new Therapeutic...
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com South Florida residents strike back at intruders By Robert Nolin and C. Ron Allen South Florida Sun Sentinel September 11, 2009 With handguns and baseball bats, South Florida residents in recent days have been striking back at home invaders, beating and even killing those who violate the sanctity of their homes....
By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 18, 2009 WEST PALM BEACH – Milagro Cunningham’s lawyer described him as autistic and argued before a jury last week that he was insane at the time he beat and raped an 8-year-old girl, then left her to die buried under concrete blocks in...
10:53 AM CDT on Saturday, April 11, 2009 By DIANE JENNINGS / The Dallas Morning News djennings@dallasnews.com Everyone agrees Andre Thomas is crazy. In 2004, he cut out the hearts of his wife and her two children and pocketed them. Before his murder trial, he plucked out his right eye. In January, while on...
What follows is an article written about Prof. Winick that appeared in the first issue of the AALS section on Balance in Legal education’s November, 2008 newsletter: A Few Fun Facts About Chair Elect, Bruce Winick At the end of the year, our fearless leader Mike Schwartz finishes up his term as Chair of...
Long petitions too diverting, panel argues By Dianna Cahn South Florida Sun-Sentinel March 23, 2009 The evidence that led to a guilty verdict in Alan Hedrick’s murder trial was so “overwhelming” that an appeals court declared his 130 pages of arguments claiming an unfair trial to be not only without merit but “unfounded,” and...
Equipoise is the official newsletter for the Association of American Law Schools Section on Balance in Legal Education. The recent release of its November issue includes a profile of Professor Winick, who assumes the Chair position of the Balance Section at the end of 2008. click to download
Prof. Winick was quoted in the Miami Herald on September 22nd by on the case of an autistic man accused of stabbing his mother. Autism is not a defense against a violent crime, said Bruce J. Winick, a UM law professor. For the state to prosecute, Brinegar merely has to be competent to stand...
On April 17, 2008 Professor Winick was interviewed and quoted in the Miami Herald on the Liberty City 7 case. …Bruce Winick, a law professor at the University of Miami, said the second jury stalemate “tells a story. The jury doesn’t trust the government’s credibility here. It’s a trumped-up, overblown case. ”We’re paying the...
On April 17th, 2008, The New York Times quoted Prof. Winick on the mistrial of the ‘Liberty City 7′ case: The jurors did not comment. Bruce J. Winick, a law professor at the University of Miami who followed the case, said the mistrial showed public skepticism of the pre-emptive terrorism-related arrests. “Politics played too...