IN RE REMOVAL OF A CHIEF JUDGE

No. 79206.

592 So.2d 671 (1992)

In re Petition for REMOVAL OF A CHIEF JUDGE.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 17, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Brinton, Jacksonville, on behalf of members in good standing of The Florida Bar practicing law in the Fourth Judicial Circuit, and Benjamin H. Hill III, President, Tampa, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Tallahassee, of The Florida Bar and by the Executive Committee on behalf of the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar, for petitioner.

Samuel S. Jacobson of Datz, Jacobson & Lembcke, P.A., Jacksonville, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

We have before us a petition to remove Judge John E. Santora from the office of Chief Judge of Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit.1 We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.; Fla.R.Jud.Admin. 2.050(c). We grant the petition and order his removal as Chief Judge.

On December 22, 1991, The Florida Times-Union, a newspaper of general circulation in the Fourth Judicial Circuit, published remarks made by Judge...

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