Celebrated Miami Attorney Gerald Kogan Dies at 87

Gerald Kogan, a renowned Miami attorney-judge who defended one of the McDuffie cops in the momentous 1980 trial, died Thursday. He was 87. Early in his career, he was chief of major crimes as a prosecutor for Miami-Dade State Attorney Richard Gerstein. He went on to become a Miami-Dade circuit court judge and eventually rose to chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court. In his later years, he was celebrated for his work against the death penalty. <a href="https://johndorschner.medium.com/celebrated-miami-attorney-gerald-kogan-dies-at-87-33b124496887">Read More</a>