George E. Tragos, a longtime criminal defense lawyer in Pinellas County, has formed the firm of Tragos & Sartes with Peter A. Sartes, and opened the practice in the SunTrust Bank building, 601 Cleveland St., Clearwater. The firm will practice criminal defense and personal injury law. Tragos had been a sole practitioner since 1985. He is board certified in criminal trial law and has worked on such high-profile cases as Terri Schiavo and Gen. Manuel Noriega's co-conspirator, Enrique Pretelt. He was formerly chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney's Office and chief of the Felony Division in the State Attorney's Office. He has represented the United States in European courts and lectures extensively on national and international criminal law for the Florida Bar and the American Bar Associations.
Sartes has had several articles published on criminal law for the Appellate Section of the Florida Bar and the Clearwater Bar Association. He is a board member of the Young Lawyers of the Florida Bar and a past president of the Young Lawyers Division of the Clearwater Bar Association. He serves on the Florida Bar's rules of judicial administration committee........
Prominent lawyer starts new firm
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Our senses were assaulted earlier by the dark thoughts of Garry Wills. Now a rebuttal appears refreshingly in the LA Times.
..........Wills, confident that he has torn down the crucifix, attempts to place a statue of the Goddess of Reason in its place, but even there he fails. He argues the woman needs to be given the choice to decide when and whether she is carrying a fetus or a person. So, by some amazing act of cognitive voodoo, it is the woman's choice that decides when human personhood begins? Why then, restrict the woman's choice to the womb? Some philosophers, like Princeton's Peter Singer, have the courage of Wills' convictions, extending a woman's choice to end a life all the way through birth and infancy. Using his own argument, there is no logical reason Wills should deny a woman's right to infanticide. After all, qualified people disagree here too. In addition to Singer, no less a personage than James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning co-discoverer of DNA, has advocated infanticide in cases of neonatal imperfection or retardation. Wills himself takes potshots at the case of Terri Schiavo, who was obviously out of the womb. Any number of people would argue that simply making it out of the chute does not qualify one to claim that he or she possesses a human life. So, who is a person and when? If we had followed Wills' recommendation to let the mother decide, Terri Schiavo would certainly have fared better............
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