Beloved Miami judge Stanford Blake retires after 22 years
For most of his 22 years on the bench, Circuit Judge Stanford Blake presided over some of Miami’s biggest criminal cases with a blend of humor, calm and legal gravitas. Those who appeared before him included a crooked FBI agent tied in with murderous mobsters, a Coral Gables man who dispatched a gunman to assassinate his parents and a South Beach druggie who cut up a teenager girl and flushed her down the toilet.