Wire ServicesAugust 26, 2020Tag: Judicial Qualifications CommissionImage via Palatka Main Street.
Wire ServicesAugust 26, 2020
Jim RosicaAugust 22, 2019
5min1014
The memo is on "ethical issues raised by conversations with former employees."
Jim RosicaAugust 2, 2019
5min695
Her attorney wants the case to be heard in Broward County.
Jim RosicaJuly 19, 2019
6min380
"I hope this will never happen again to myself or anyone else for that matter."
Jim RosicaJuly 19, 2019
5min1046
"It is never appropriate ... to put (one's) hands around the neck of an employee."
Jim RosicaSeptember 14, 2018
6min477
The Florida Bar now is seeking to disbar a former judge who accepted baseball tickets from a law firm representing a woman whose personal injury case he was presiding over. Circuit Judge John F. Lakin, elected in 2012, quit the bench in March 2016. He served on the 12th Judicial Circuit, which serves DeSoto, Manatee […]
Jim RosicaMay 4, 2017
3min387
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a 90-day unpaid suspension and public reprimand for an Orlando-area judge who “circulated a deceptive, misleading advertisement.” The court’s hearing panel also suggested paranoia on the part of Circuit Judge Kimberly Shepard, who believed “sinister forces (were) at work” trying to defeat her, they said. Shepard previously was a Democratic state […]
Martin DyckmanFebruary 22, 2017
9min387
Is Florida’s judicial ethics commission about to become collateral damage in a battle over the independence of the courts? House Speaker Richard Corcoran, the Land O’Lakes Republican, appears to have targeted the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) along with the courts themselves in his campaign to curb the independence of the judiciary. The JQC and the […]
Jim RosicaFebruary 14, 2017
3min759
A new House panel on Tuesday moved two measures aimed at tightening ethics requirements at the local government level. The Public Integrity and Ethics Commitee, chaired by Yalaha Republican Larry Metz, OK’d proposals (PCB PIE 17-03, PCB PIE 17-04) that would increase local officials’ financial disclosure, clamp down on potential conflicts of interest and create a Local Government Lobbyist […]
Staff ReportsDecember 29, 2016
3min219
Circuit Judge Mark Hulsey III of Jacksonville has apologized after a new charge of judicial misconduct was leveled against him. On Thursday, Hulsey filed his answer to a second amended complaint of judicial misconduct by the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC), filed earlier this month. It said he “directed (his) Judicial Assistant to overnight personal packages related to (his) campaign, using the 4th Judicial […]