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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
That's one point of view. But I don't really believe that these 2 commissioners were squeaky clean by a long shot. They may have been acquitted, but that only means that in the opinion of the appellate judge, there was insufficient evidence to uphold a conviction, or that there was a procedural impropriety during the original trial. It does not mean that they are guiltless.
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You again are misstating what are easily found facts. Nobody asks anyone to be squeaky clean. The acquittal was not the opinion the "appellate judge". It was the unanimous finding of three judges all appointed by DeSantis.
This judicial panel did not say there was insufficient evidence to support a conviction. They unanimously said that a clear reading of the law said there was inadequate reason to support ever charging Miller. They said that the law actually fully supported a person making a sworn statement to have the opportunity to correct earlier or later in that statement any facts in question to actually get at the truth. Which is what Miller did in the interview.
The judicial panel did not say that there was a procedural error at the trial or a technicality. The court in fact said that the charge was bogus and never should have been brought as a simple reading of Florida law and prior decisions on what is required for a perjury charge should have been obvious to the prosecutor's office. That office it seems to me had a different agenda than following the law as it is written and as it has long been applied in Florida according to the 5th circuit court findings.