Another Judge In Hot Water

In Broward County, Florida, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports:

• The Judicial Qualifications Commission filed formal misconduct charges against Broward County Judge Terri-Ann Miller on Wednesday accusing her of misleading voters to think that she was an incumbent judge when she successfully ran for election last year. The commission accused Miller, in documents filed Wednesday, of distributing campaign materials "calculated" to wrongly imply she was a sitting Broward judge when she was not. Her campaign material included a photo of her wearing a judicial robe and using words that implied she was the incumbent, the commission charged. [...] The state watchdog agency said Miller "made a continuing deliberate effort to misrepresent your qualifications for office ... which cumulative misconduct constitutes a pattern and practice unbecoming a candidate for and lacking the dignity appropriate to judicial office, with the effect of bringing the judiciary into disrepute."

For more, see Broward judge accused of misconduct.

Go here to view Notice of formal charges against Judge Terri-Ann Miller.

For a quick summary on some of the problems Broward County, Florida judges seem to have avoiding perceptions of impropriety, see the Postscript after the post, Egregious Conduct By South Florida City In Violation Of State Homestead Exemption Laws Threatens Loss Of Home.

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