INQUIRY CONCERNING A JUDGE BERKOWITZ

No. 69673.

522 So.2d 843 (1988)

INQUIRY CONCERNING A JUDGE, re Irwin A. BERKOWITZ.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. MacDonald, Jr., Chairman, Tampa, Roy T. Rhodes, General Counsel, Tallahassee, and Richard Hersch of the Law Offices of Richard Hersch, Sp. Counsel, Coral Gables, for Florida Judicial Qualifications Com'n, petitioner.

Leo Greenfield and Harvie S. DuVal of Greenfield & DuVal, North Miami, for respondent.

William T. Laswell, President, Fort Lauderdale, amicus curiae for Broward County Criminal Defense Attorneys, Inc.


PER CURIAM.

We have for review the Judicial Qualifications Commission's findings that Judge Irwin A. Berkowitz' conduct demonstrates a present unfitness to hold office and its recommendation that he be removed from office. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 12 of the state constitution, and approve and adopt the JQC's findings and recommendations and remove Berkowitz from his office of circuit judge.

In November 1986 the JQC formally charged...

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