Tonya Alanez The Sun-Sentinel

May 19, 2011

Tonya Alanez
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

RE: A bad apple that stayed bad – Some comments on your story about Judge Luzzo, a man with neither honor nor shame and, now, a man without ambition.

Ms Alanez,

Maybe it’s better for the commonweal of Broward County if Judge Luzzo, a champion of the five finger discount, keeps his sad sacked Black robed slocking ass off the Bench.

That he hasn’t tried a case in several months can only be as something good for the sorry state of Justice here.

If memory serves, in addition to his full time job of gavel swinging, he had a part time job of scalping tickets. The problem was that he got his tickets from litigants appearing before him. He would ask before the trial began if anyone had any “extras” for the Dolphins, the Heat, the Panthers, the Marlins, the Hurricanes, inter alia. As bad as that was it got worse.

It was a real life Maltese Falcon. “The stuff that dreams are made of.” It was a Business School dream. His cost basis was zero. He resold them. His return was infinite. I would say that he could have worked for Enron but, since he favors the public sector, I’ll make that Fanny Mae. Imagine a drug dealer who gets his stash of blow and horse for free. Cristal for lunch.

In the real world of litigation, in the real world of trial prep, a zealous advocate for his client would get tickets for an up close and personal reprise of the greatest hits of Seal Team 6. 2 for the next Papal Conclave would not be too much to ask. Or, in his instance, to expect.

The Florida Supreme Court censured and suspended him. He should have been suspended by his short and curlies from the world famous Andrews Avenue Bridge scrotum stretcher.

I would have had him driven from his court room by a mob with whips and snarling dogs. He would have been met in the lobby by a Board Certified Master of Bastinado and Strapado who was eager to try out some new combos.

The Sun-Sentinel saw fit to publish my letter on this subject. A copy is enclosed.




At least when he was on the pad he showed up for work.

Every time this poltroon signs the back of his pay check he sticks his dirty fingers deeply, very deeply, into the eyes of probity.

The ethical make up of the Broward Judiciary is rotten.

Let me amend that.

The ethical make up of the Broward Judiciary is still rotten.






Kevin Smith