Supreme Court of Florida

Recommendation of public reprimand for a judge in the First District Court of Appeal is approved. The judge was properly found to have violated the Code of Judicial Conduct by clearly implying, in a concurring opinion, that his colleague had cast a corrupt vote. (Corrected opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2008
• Published 12/23/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Judge Morris Silberman, Chair, Judicial Qualifications Commission, Tampa, FL;  Michael L. Schneider, General Counsel, Judicial Qualifications Commission, Tallahassee, FL;  Marvin E. Barkin, Interim General Counsel, Judicial Qualifications Commission, Tampa, FL;  Brooke S. Kennerly, Executive Director, Judicial Qualifications Commission, Tallahassee, FL;  Lauri Waldman Ross of Ross and Girten, Miami, FL, Counsel to Judicial Qualifications Commission Hearing Panel;  and F. Wallace Pope, Jr., and Jennifer A. Reh of Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel and Burns, LLP, Clearwater, FL, Special Counsel to Judicial Qualifications Commission, for the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission., Bruce S. Rogow and Cynthia E. Gunther of Bruce S. Rogow, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, Sylvia Walbolt of Carlton Fields, P.A., Tampa, FL, Richard C. McFarlain, Tallahassee, FL;  and Guy E. Burnette, Jr., Tallahassee, FL, for Judge Michael E. Allen.