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In Miami Re-enactment, Capone Has New Day in Court

MIAMI — Arrest the bum and run him out of town: that was the approach of the Miami police when Alphonse Gabriel Capone moved to South Florida in 1928. But when he sued the city for harassment two years later and was then tried for perjury, the authorities ended up looking like chumps....

Why then would the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court and Miami-Dade County go out of their way to re-enact the perjury trial on Tuesday — in a courthouse already overwhelmed with a backlog of cases? Partly to celebrate the court’s 100th birthday; partly for reasons more profound.

“This is where we come from,” said William Altfield, an assistant state attorney tasked with playing Mr. McCreary. “This is the actual courtroom where the trial happened, and it’s magical.”...
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