[6][failed verification] Their youngest child, Donald III, was severely injured and paralyzed below the waist in 2008 after rolling his truck and being ejected.
Donald III was previously arrested in 2007 on a DUI charge after being stopped by police in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
Judge Moran was named 2003 “Jurist of the Year” by the Florida Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
A new $190 million courthouse was the biggest ticket item of the $2.25 billion package of projects that voters funded with a half-cent sales tax increase.
Moran was critical of many of the proposed modifications, arguing that small immediate savings would result in higher expenditures in the near future or the structure opening at full capacity, requiring an immediate need for expansion.
[13] In 2005, in spite of judicial “bluster and arm-twisting”, as Ron Littlepage of the Florida Times-Union described it, Mayor Peyton announced a plan to build a separate criminal courthouse downtown to save money.
[15] On April 22, 2008, Peyton and Moran came together to urge the Jacksonville City Council to approve a $350 million county courthouse complex, which they did.
"I witnessed spattered spots of blood on the victim's white shirt and on her hair.... [s]he punched her husband or threw something at him.
During his interview, Moran told police that his wife had not only consumed a large quantity of wine, but was also under medication prescribed for depression.
It was the opinion of the investigators that an arrest warrant should be issued for Elaina Moran on charges of domestic battery and falsifying a police report,[17] but on Friday, September 28, State Attorney Harry Shorstein announced that no charges would be filed against either Moran.