Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Judge's Dad's Day thoughts lead to bail

|
|
 
  
Published: June 25, 2009 at 6:31 PM

MIAMI, June 25 (UPI) -- A judge who said he spent Father's Day pondering whether a Florida man accused of killing his wife should be deprived of his kids, granted him bail Thursday.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge David Miller set bail at $500,000 for developer Adam Kaufman of Aventura, rejecting arguments from prosecutors, The Miami Herald reported. Miller also dismissed a motion by prosecutors to recuse himself from the case on grounds he had pre-judged the bail question.

Eleanora Kaufman was found dead in the bathroom of the home she and her husband and their two children shared. Adam Kaufman was arrested after a medical examiner found his wife died of manual strangulation and not from falling and hitting her head as he had said.

On June 3, Miller refused bail, the usual practice in cases in which the charge is second-degree murder. But this week, he said he had second thoughts on Father's Day, remembering a case in which a defendant lost custody of his children while imprisoned awaiting trial.

''That got me thinking about the evidence presented and the lack of evidence presented,'' he said.

Topics: David Miller
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
The Tibetan Moniam Festival in China Super Bowl XLVI ticker tape victory parade The making of the Oscars
The Chicago Auto Show The Most Desirable Women of 2012 Tu Bishvat Migron settlement
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 21
President Obama Signs Smuggling Prevention Act at White House
View Caption
fark
You're a female air traveler and there's no female TSA agent to screen you? No problem, there's...
Despite their efforts to convince you otherwise, many "foodies" can't, in a blind taste test, tell...
Photoshop this urban underground dweller
Kim Jong Un Dead. I repeat - Un Dead
Nothing is more romantic on Valentine's Day than taking your lover on a tour of New York's sewers...
Man arrested for writing 'bomb' on some toilet paper. "His family says the word 'bomb' is often...