to secure himself in the sum he was about to advance and his other responsibilities for his principal. Morris was a ruined man. Nixon knew it, and treated with him in this instance as if the crisis had come when creditors would no longer be satisfied with postponed promises. It was natural for Nixon, nor was it wrong in the then state of real property, and as he was about to advance to his brother-in-law $5000, to take the most efficient way to secure himself from loss, and to put it out of the power of Morris to interfere with his security, by subsequently giving to others an interest in the property. We find upon a preceding occasion when Morris was pressed, and had offered to mortgage thisMIAMI (WSVN) - A former South Florida judge, who made headlines when video of a teenager giving him the middle finger during a hearing went viral, died this weekend.

Former Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat passed away at his house in Miami on Saturday.

The Havana-born public servant was elected a judge in 2010 and served six years in Miami’s criminal court circuit.

In 2013, he appeared on news outlets across the country after he sentenced then-18-year-old Penelope Soto to 30 days in jail, moments after the teen had given him the middle finger.

Rodriguez-Chomat was 72 years old.

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