IN RE CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT

No. 81685.

643 So.2d 1037 (1994)

In re CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT.

Supreme Court of Florida.

September 29, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jere Tolton, Past-Chair, Code Revision Project and Committee on Standards of Conduct Governing Judges, Shalimar; Nath C. Doughtie, Chair, Code Revision Project, Committee on Standards of Conduct Governing Judges, Gainesville, Thomas S. Edwards, Jr. of Peek & Cobb, P.A., Jacksonville, on behalf of the Supreme Court Committee on Standards of Conduct Governing Judges; and Erwin Fleet, Chair, Retired Judges' Section of the Circuit Judges' Conference, Ft. Walton Beach, for petitioner.

William F. Blews, President, St. Petersburg, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Tallahassee, on behalf of the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar; Bill Kasper, Executive Director, Gotha, on behalf of Child; Jimmy Hatcher, a Florida citizen, Bristol, Beverley Comstock, pro se, Antonio Capestany, a Florida citizen, N.M.B., Robert J. Bertrand, pro se, Emanuel N. Feigin, pro se, Cheryl A. Tesher, pro se, Mark Zimmerman, a Florida citizen, St. Petersburg, Heinz Dinter, Ph.D., pro se, Stephen Lane, pro se, Dr. David E. Flinchbaugh, pro se, William D. Palmer, pro se, and other interested individual lawyers and members of the public, responding with written comments.


OVERTON, Justice.

We have for adoption a new Code of Judicial Conduct to replace the present Code of Judicial Conduct adopted in In re The Florida Bar — Code of Judicial Conduct, 281 So.2d 21 (Fla. 1973), and its subsequent amendments1. In August of 1990 the American Bar Association adopted a new Model Code of Judicial Conduct. As a result of that action, Chief Justice Leander J. Shaw requested...

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