Received an email, edited below. I was assigned the Barquin police shooting as a prosecutor and was then removed because of police pressure. As a defense attorney I was retained to work on the Shehada and McCoy cases as a homicide consultant in 2009. That consultancy ended in (from memory) sometime in the fall of 2009 and I have had no further involvement.

Hello Mr. Ranck,

I am looking into the Leonardo Barquin and Shehada and McCoy police shootings. Barquin seems like a cover up based on your internal memo. They are stone-walling me by not complying with public records requests in both cases [i.e. the Barquin killing and the Shehada/McCoy killings]…

Tavss [former Miami Beach Officer Adam Tavss] killed both Shehada and McCoy four days apart…The killings were covered nationally by The New York Times and CNN among others. But not The Miami Herald. Jose Pagliery was covering the story but the Herald pulled him because of pressure. They then put a much more police-friendly reporter, David Ovalle, on the story, the same reporter they put on the Barquin case after taking Jay Weaver off…