Navigation Justice Couriel praises Florida’s criminal bar, defends textualist approach
Justice John Couriel: ‘I think the results on our court, at least in the five years that I’ve been on it, is that we seem to speak with a pretty clear voice.’
Florida’s criminal trial bar is among the best in the nation, its highly skilled assistant attorney generals and capital collateral review counsel are a taxpayer bargain, and some lawyers continue to resist the Supreme Court’s textualist mandate, says Justice John Couriel.
“The more I talk and listen to justices in the other states, candidly, the happier I am to be where we’re from,” he said. “We have a really tremendous dedicated criminal bar, especially in these capital cases, who are making the right arguments at the right time.”
