A top Miami Judge will be in Bermuda this week to speak at the completion ceremony of the Alternative Substance Abuse Programme at Westgate Corectional Facility and then at a free, public lecture at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute on Friday evening.

Judge Jeffrey Rosinek has been a Circuit Court Judge of the 11th Judicial Circuit Court in the State of Florida since 1999 and is in charge of the Miami-Dade Drug Court.

He comes to Bermuda at the invitation of the National Drug Commission and the Director of the Alternative Substance Abuse Programme, Kuni Frith-Black, and will be the guest speaker at the completion ceremony at Westgate on Thursday.

Judge Rosinek will also be giving an evening lecture at the BUEI on Friday from 7.00 to 9.30 p.m., hosted by the National Drug Commission. The lecture is free and members of the public are invited to attend.

Judge Rosinek was also a partner of the Law Firm, Rosinek and Blake and served as a County Court Judge from 1986 to `89 and has been president of the American Judges Association and chaired two annual AJA Education Conferences and established the Juvenile Justice Task Force. Judge Rosinek has also been published in a number of journals and newspapers, including the Washington Times in 1997 when he spoke on the topic "Risks Come with Bench Bashing".

Also in 1997 in the Chicago Times he wrote on "Crime and Punishment: Are we Getting Tougher or Are We Just Sweeping Children Under the Rug".

In 1998 Judge Rosinek wrote in the Miami Herald on "Find Better Ways to Stem Youth Violence". He has also lectured across the nation on a variety of topics, including "Drug Courts and the Drug Wars", "The Fourth Amendment and the Drug Wars" and "Children in Adult Courts".