The case of Imarah Aaliyah Bryan highlights the urgency with which the Ninth Judicial Circuit needs to be handled.
By now, you have seen the viral court hearing of a mentally ill woman named Imarah Aaliyah Bryan who was jailed and accused of stealing from a Target. The video sent shockwaves through social media because it was clear that what Ms. Bryan needed was care, not jail and a conviction. Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence in Orlando’s Ninth Judicial Circuit that just happened to be caught on camera.
As governor of the State of Florida, Moe has pledged to deploy the National Guard to the Orange County Courthouse because he believes that a State of Emergency is warranted given the number of corrupt judges in that courthouse, and the number of judges with ties to the Lowndes law firm.
The judge in this specific case, judge Amanda S. Bova, appeared on a list of nominees sent to Ron DeSantis for appointments to the bench. The list was prepared by Tara Tedrow of the Lowndes law firm.
Far too many times where concerns of corruption arise in the Ninth Judicial Circuit, the Lowndes law firm is always connected to it. Bova has no business anywhere near a courthouse after finding a clearly mentally ill person, who is unhoused and vulnerable, “intelligent” solely for the purpose of securing a conviction by any means. It is a collective effort because, while the judges are the foundation of the Convict by Any Means initiative, public defenders and prosecutors work with them, in what Moe believes is a criminal enterprise that is the Ninth Judicial Circuit.
What was most troubling to Moe was the arrest affidavit submitted by Orlando Police Officer Sergio Reyes. It alleges that Bryan passed “all points of sale” after she came out of a restroom, but doesn’t list what “merchandise” she allegedly had. Typically, to establish probable cause, an officer has to state what was actually taken. But here, there is just a number: $145.47, which later turned into $49.00 somehow. It appears that the officer may be lying, especially as the affidavit does not state how Target handled any merchandise that was recovered. Was it destroyed? Was it still usable? Was it placed back on the shelves? There is no way to know without reviewing the body-worn camera, which Reyes states was activated.
Gary Robert Dorst is the assistant state attorney who filed an Information against Imarah without knowing what was actually alleged to have been taken from Target. He also saw the body-worn camera, and if it turns out Imarah never stole anything, he should be disbarred. Not only were the items not identified in officer Reyes’s affidavit, Dorst couldn’t identify them for the purpose of the charging Information either.
The Ninth Judicial Circuit does not limit this predatory system to the mentally ill. The elderly is consistently targeted with abusive foreclosure practices, unlawful debts are secured by way of bad-faith probate cases, illegal warrants, and property is seized without due process of law, leaving community members facing homelessness. All too often there is the same recipe: a DeSantis appointee, a vulnerable person, and the Lowndes law firm. Moe has seen enough, and will put an end to the criminal enterprise that is the Ninth Judicial Circuit, and the complex will be demolished.
The corruption in the Ninth Judicial Circuit is so bad, a judge in another circuit, Judge Lauren Peffer, campaigned on Orlando corruption and won her Broward seat, only to be discipline by the JQC for it later. The effects of Orlando corruption can be felt statewide.
What will remain of the Ninth Judicial circuit will be divided between the 5th, 10th, and 18th judicial circuits.
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