I had a front-row seat to Pam Bondi's messy stint as attorney general [View all]

[Zorro]

I still remember the night Pam Bondi called me, desperate for help.

It was a Saturday night in 2010, and Bondi was getting ready to go on national TV to join Geraldo Rivera for a discussion about a string of wrongful convictions in Florida.

Rivera knew that a discredited “expert” had already been exposed for using junk science and bogus testimony to improperly put three Brevard County men behind bars for decades and that the same fraudster was suspected of having done the same in other cases. So the TV host wanted to know whether any Florida official had the courage to reopen all the cases and see if others had been wrongfully convicted.

Bondi claimed she wanted to be that person. She was running for attorney general back then and told Rivera and his Fox News audience that if voters would just elect her, she would be a crusader for justice.

Only Bondi had a problem: She didn’t actually know much about the cases. So she called someone who did. Me.

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2024/12/06/i-had-front-row-seat-pam-bondis-messy-stint-attorney-general-column/