'Hottie' not quite the verdict she's after

By ABBIE VANSICKLE and COLLEEN JENKINS, Times Staff Writers
Published October 11, 2007

Assistant State Attorney Pam Bondi has spent the last couple weeks in Panama City, trying to convince jurors that eight boot camp employees are guilty in the death of Martin Lee Anderson.

Win or lose, she's already earned at least one fan in the Panhandle.

The local newspaper, the News Herald, featured this anonymous reader comment on Oct. 5:

"Although I don't necessarily agree with the prosecution of the boot camp guards, one thing I agree with is that Pam Bondi is the all-time hottie of all the prosecutors on the planet."

Letters hurt his case

James Parcher sure isn't doing himself any favors.

In jail since May 2006 on allegations that he beat and robbed a real estate agent in St. Petersburg, he's now charged with witness tampering and making written threats to kill.

In several instances, he sent his father a manila envelope of letters containing threats and instructed him to mail them without looking at the names and addresses, Hillsborough sheriff's reports state. Parcher's father sent some of the letters but, luckily for detectives, kept three others unopened.

The real estate agent, Julie Roberts, received a two-page letter in November. In it, the writer gave her a deadline to change her story.

"We are going to finish you if you don't recant your lies," the letter said.

Parcher, 27, was back in Hillsborough court this month on another tampering charge. Circuit Judge Walter Heinrich wasn't amused.

"Looks like you're never getting out of jail," he said.

Journal picks editor

Nathaniel L. Doliner, managing shareholder for the Carlton Fields Tampa office, has been named editor-in-chief of the American Bar Association's The Business Lawyer.

He also has been appointed vice chairman of the Bar's business law section, which publishes the premier business law journal quarterly. The journal has a circulation of about 60,000 readers nationwide.

Doliner's practice includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and other areas of corporate law.

Got a tip? For cops news, contact Abbie VanSickle at vansickle@sptimes.com or 813 226-3373. For courts news, contact Colleen Jenkins at cjenkins@sptimes.com or (813) 226-3337.

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