Supreme Court of Florida

In a judicial disciplinary proceeding, the judge at issue is removed from office for violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct in three separate incidents, the last resulting in the unjustified and preventable arrests and incarceration of eleven citizens.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/07/2006
• Published 12/07/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lauri Waldman Ross of Lauri Waldman Ross, P.A., Miami, FL, Marvin E. Barkin, Interim General Counsel, of Trenam, Kemker, Scharf, Barkin, Frye, O'Neill and Mullis, P.A., Tampa, FL, The HonorableThomas B. Freeman, Chairman, Hearing Panel, Tallahassee, FL, and John Beranek, Counsel, Hearing Panel, Ausley and McMullin, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission, Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• The HonorableJohn R. Sloop, County Judge, Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, Sanford, FL, and Damon Chase of Chase Freeman, P.A., Lake Mary, FL, for Judge Sloop, Respondent.