So we’re at a huge pause.”įernandez Rundle continued: “We anticipated this to be a jury trial, so I’m not going to sugarcoat this: I don’t know when we’re going to get jury trials back. COVID has put the entire criminal justice system on hold. “We had everything sort of on track, we had the case set to go to trial,” Fernandez Rundle said. That date was then scratched due to COVID-19 and a new date has not been set.
The case kept getting postponed until it was finally scheduled to go to trial on May 5. “If those defense attorneys don’t set it down and don’t move and the judges don’t prod them to do it, it does languish a bit,” the state attorney said.
Each then sought their own legal counsel, drawing out the case further and complicating the case with more moving parts. Originally, the four defendants were represented by the same lawyer. They were charged with three counts of aggravated battery, as a third person attempted to help the couple and was injured, and a hate crime enhancement was added to their charges. Alonso Piovet, Adonis Diaz and Pablo Reinaldo Romo-Figueroa - were caught on video and they surrendered themselves to the Miami Beach Police Department through an attorney. They were then attacked, leaving them with cuts and bruises and Chalarca with an eye injury. The couple, Rene Chalarca and Dmitry Logunov, were allegedly called gay slurs in Spanish as they were leaving a public restroom in April 2018. “I know it’s very frustrating because it has taken a long time.” “Honestly, this is such a priority for us,” she said during the state attorney candidate virtual town hall. There’s no new trial date set, and Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle expressed her frustration of the drawn-out case during a SAVE town hall Thursday.
The Westin, located just across A1A (beach front avenue) from Sebastian Beach, Fort Lauderdale’s famed GAY BEACH! We are SO EXCITED to offer you many of the familiar happenings you have come to love and expect from Florida Roundups over the past three decades. We’re confident that FRU: Break Free 2022 is a great value for 5 awesome days of quality R&R, fellowship, fun in the sun and recovery growth, and we know you will be too.Two years after a gay couple was allegedly assaulted by a group of four men at Miami Beach Pride, they were finally going to get their day in court.
We can’t wait to welcome you to our new home in FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH. … Resilient people tap into their strengths and support systems to overcome challenges and work through problems.” – ()Īs we tap into our strengths and lean into our support networks, we find the courage to “Break FREE”, a very fitting theme of our next conference. Being resilient does not mean that people don’t experience stress, emotional upheaval, and suffering. “Resilience is the ability to withstand adversity and bounce back from difficult life events. Here is a description of the word I found that perfectly describes our entire FRU community… But that brings me to the word “RESILIENCE”. I am reminded that this is not the first time something difficult has come our way, and possibly won’t be the last time we face adversity or something challenging.
Having to make the most difficult decision-cancelling our planned in person conference FRU 2021: Break Free, for health and safety of our entire FRU community. As your Co-Chairs, and Board of Directors entered into somewhat uncharted territory, we stayed hopeful and teachable. For us as a community, we immediately began to find new ways to stay together, stay connected, while having to stay apart for the health and safety of our loved ones and everyone around us. Welcome to Florida Roundup 2022!Īfter we last were together in March 2020, the world shut down from a strange new virus.