Supreme Court of Florida

Upon review of a recommendation of the Judicial Qualifications Commission that a circuit judge be disciplined, the judge is removed as a judge where clear and convincing evidence supported the commission's findings, including flagrant misrepresentations made to the voting public during the judge's judicial campaign, coupled with serious campaign financial misconduct and violations of law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/25/2006
• Published 05/25/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Honorable James R. Wolf, Chair, Tallahassee, Florida, Thomas C. MacDonald, Jr., General Counsel, Tampa, FL, Brooke S. Kennerly, Executive Director, Tallahassee, FL, Marvin E. Barkin, Marie Tomassi, and Michael K. Green of Trenam, Kemker, Scharf, Barkin, Frye, O'Neill and Mullis, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission, Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott K. Tozian and Gwendolyn H. Hinkle of Smith, Tozian and Hinkle, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Judge Renke, Respondent.