Thursday, September 13, 2007

Quote of the Day: Intrusive or fair game?

“The father was testifying and one of the lawyers asked him to name all the women he’d had sex with. What type of crap is that? Someone asks me that and I’ll tell him to go fuck himself straight up; from the witness stand if that’s where I’m sitting. Seriously, isn’t that the kind of intimidation questioning they’d use in Cuba? I mean, if there’s a child in the house and you want to know what’s going on, ask for a number or something, but names?”

--Blog Critical Miami comments on the ongoing custody case of a girl who emigrated from Cuba to the U.S.

Custody is being disputed between the girl’s Cuban father-Rafael Izquierdo- and the child’s Cuban exile foster couple living in Florida. Yet unlike the Elian Gonzalez situation this custody affair is much more complex.

In the latest developments, several blows were dealt against Izquierdo when the judge nearly dropped the case after she admonished his testimony on the stand.

Sources- Critical Miami, The Latin Americanist, International Herald Tribune, CBS4.com

Image- AFP (“Rafael Izquierdo arrives for the start of a court hearing to determine who will gain custody of his daughter”)

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:44 PM

    How much do you wanna bet that this Miami judge will some how pull a ruling out of her ass so that the new family, Cubas, can keep the girl.

    After two months, you can't say that they are not a 'family', right?

    LOL

    It will be nice to see the riots in Little Havana if they take this girl from her 'real family'.

    Either way, the judge looses--hated by the Miami mafia, or seen as a rightwing stoodge by the rest of the thinking world.

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  2. Erwin C.5:52 PM

    This is a very complicated case without a cut-and-dry good guy/bad guy. Hence it's difficult to figure out which way the verdict will head.

    The judge is stuck between a rock and a hard place because of te possibility that either verdict could inflame the passions of people.

    As someone who used to live in Miami I sincerely hope that no "riots in Little havana" take place regardless of the verdict. Given Miami's not a perfect place but it doesn't need another black eye by rioting over the custody case.

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