Supreme Court of Florida

Recommendation for a public reprimand is approved for a judge who imposed unreasonable requirements on defense attorneys who moved for her disqualification in a capital murder case, and subsequently threated the attorneys with contempt.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/29/2008
• Published 09/29/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lansing C. Scriven of Lansing C. Scriven, P.A., Special Counsel, Tampa, FL, Michael Louis Schneider, General Counsel, Tallahassee, FL, and Marvin E. Barkin, Special Consulting Counsel, Tampa, FL, for Judicial Qualifications Commission, Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. David Bogenshutz, of Bogenschutz, Dutko, and Kroll, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, and Perry W. Hodges, Jr. of Rogers, Morris and Ziegler, LLP, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Respondent.