Harry L. Shorstein (born August 3, 1940) is an American lawyer who served as State Attorney for Florida Court of Appeal Court, covering Duval, Clay and Nassau, from 1991-2008. A Democrat, he was appointed to the post in 1991 by Governor Lawton Chiles to fill in the rest of Ed Austin's time, who resigned to succeed in running for the mayor of Jacksonville. He was elected for full term in 1992, re-elected in 1996, and ran without resistance in 2000 and 2004. At a press conference on February 6, 2007, the 66-year-old lawyer announced that he would not run for re-election. in 2008. He later returned to private practice, and was replaced as State Attorney by Angela Corey.
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Careers
Shorstein grew up in Jacksonville and attended the University of Florida at Gainesville, where he received his undergraduate and law degree. He was admitted to the Florida Bar on October 25, 1965. He was admired to serve in Vietnam as Captain in the United States Marine Corps with a Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V", Combat Action Ribbon, the Vietnamese Cross from Gallantry, and Excerpt of Presidential Units. After the war he was employed by Public Defender Lou Frost and worked in the office before turning to the prosecution in 1970 as Chief of Division and Chief Assistant to the State Attorney. In 1974, Shorstein started two years as General Counsel for the City of Jacksonville, then turned to private practice for 15 years. In 1991 he was appointed as State Attorney. Among the cases prosecuted during his tenure were the Brenton Butler case, where the 15-year-old Butler was mistakenly accused of murder, and then released. Since leaving the office he joined the company Shorstein & amp; Lasnetski, where he works with his youngest son, Paul. He was recently considered to be appointed United States Attorney for the Central District of Florida. His successor, Angela Corey (who had been fired by Shorstein in 2007), "sent a letter to a Florida senator demanding that they oppose the pending nomination of Shorstein as a US lawyer," writing that "he should not hold an authority position in his community, using a grand jury for personal vendetta. "On June 10, 2010, President Barack Obama has chosen federal attorney Bobby O'Neill's career, out of Tampa, for that position.
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Working in the Juvenile Justice Program
Harry Shorstein launches a new juvenile justice program in Jacksonville that takes a three-pronged approach to juvenile crime. To reduce juvenile crime, it encourages both early intervention in high-risk populations and rehabilitation among offenders. For violent and repeated offenders, it promotes detention. From 1993 to 1996, juvenile crime in Jacksonville declined drastically, which is a Florida State University study linked to the implementation of the plan. However, the same can not be said for the adult offender program, especially the murder rate, which has given Jacksonville the difference to Florida's murder capital for fourteen of the last nineteen years.
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