Group Backs Challenge to Marsy’s Law

Last week, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri and the Miami Civilian Investigative Panel, which is a police oversight board, also gave notice that they want to file friend-of-the court briefs backing the challenge to the appeals-court ruling. But attorneys for the Tallahassee police officers and the Florida Police Benevolent Association asked the Supreme Court to strike Gualtieri’s notice, saying it was improperly “argumentative.”