Lawyers with the office of Public Defender Matt Shirk are expressing anger at Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda over his decision to show the video of Farah's death to her brother, saying the law prohibited him from doing so. But de la...
The Shelby Farah murder trial has become an increasingly heated conflict between Public Defender Matt Shirk and State Attorney Angela Corey. A major issue is the decision of Bernie de la Rionda in the State Attorney's Office to show the surveillance ...
Darlene Farah testified Monday because lawyers for Rhodes asked to have Corey's office removed from her daughter's case and also sought to have Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda sanctioned for his behavior. De la Rionda is the lead ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- It happened on Earline Circle on the Southside near a yellow double wide trailer. Assistant State Attorney Bernie de La Rionda said it was wrong. "People don't have the right to just kill and shoot people like she did," he said.
But prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda does not agree. He's an assistant state attorney in Jacksonville and in favor of the death penalty. He says the death penalty is expensive, only because of frivolous appeals. “I think still the process takes too long ...
Bernie de la Rionda, who prosecutes many Jacksonville death penalty cases and acts as senior managing director for the State Attorney's Office, argued the death penalty is necessary to distinguish between particularly heinous murders and other killings.