Not long ago, she sentenced a robbery suspect to 27 years in prison after he'd rejected a 20-year deal from a prosecutor.
"You don't mess around with her," said Lake Mary attorney Isadore Hyde Jr.
She wants to keep Seminole safe from violent crime, he said.
"I think her sense of justice, civility is such that she's going to make sure that this place, Seminole County, is not Mogadishu," he said.
Nelson, 58, was appointed to the bench in 1999 by then-Gov. Jeb Bush. In private practice, her specialty was civil litigation, but on the bench, she's spent most of her time – seven years – handling felony trials.
She was the judge in the baby-napping case of Jennifer Latham, the woman who walked into the maternity ward of Sanford's hospital, changed clothes so that she appeared to be a nurse, then lifted a newborn from his mother's arms and walked out. Nelson sentenced Latham to 30 years in prison.
CLICK FOR THE FULL NEWS STORY
0 Response to "George Zimmerman's new judge: Debra S. Nelson "The Hanging Judge""
Post a Comment