It’s not easy selecting the most bizarre courtroom tales in South Florida, where locked-up lawyers and misbehaving judges grabbed headlines for financial crimes and drunken spectacles in 2016.
There was the ranting juror, the Swap Shop owner who sued after Ferrari North America rejected his $1 million deposit for one of the most expensive cars in the world, and the case of the Canadian motorcyclist whose search for a cheap thrill with an undercover cop turned costly, despite a Broward County judge’s reluctance to levy a mandatory $5,000 civil penalty for soliciting a prostitute.
