February 27, 2023

Statement from Broward State Attorney Harold F. Pryor and the Broward State Attorney’s Office:

“We respectfully accept Judge Murphy’s decision, though we strongly disagree with much of the court’s findings and wish that a jury of Mr. Jorge Carballo’s peers had been allowed to reach a verdict.

The tragic deaths of 12 senior citizens who resided at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills in 2017 deeply shocked and affected our community. I pursued criminal charges related to nine of those deaths because I, and my prosecutors, firmly believed the evidence showed those deaths were the result of culpable negligence.

I think we can all agree that all of us would want our family members to have been treated with much more care and concern.

We respectfully accept the judge’s decision, though we strongly disagree with it. We thank the judge for giving both parties a fair and well-conducted trial.”

For additional details, please see the two documents prosecutors filed in court:

State’s motion for reconsideration here.

State’s supporting memo here.