Free Republic

As Broward County officials prepare to arrest Carol City linebacker Willie Williams for violating probation, the criminal defense lawyer for Williams will try to make the process as painless as possible. ''I called his probation officer to ask for a surrender,'' said Williams' attorney, Paul Lazarus, on Sunday. ``Instead of them coming out and arresting him with a warrant, I requested that they give him a notice to appear.'' That decision would be made by Broward County Circuit Court judge Michael G. Kaplan, the same judge who presided over Williams' felony burglary case in the summer of 2002, when Kaplan...