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IN RE INQUIRY CONCERNING WARD

No. 82248.

654 So.2d 549 (1995)

In re INQUIRY CONCERNING a Judge, No. 93-146, C. Lavon WARD.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 4, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Reiter, Chairman and Ford L. Thompson, Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, and Glenn J. Waldman of Waldman, Feluren & Ferrer, P.A., North Miami Beach, as special counsel for the Judicial Qualifications Com'n, for petitioner.

Charles L. Curtis of Doumar, Curtis, Cross, Laystrom & Perloff, Fort Lauderdale, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

We review the recommendation of the Judicial Qualifications Commission that Judge C. Lavon Ward be publicly reprimanded for voluntarily writing a character reference letter on his official court stationery on behalf of a friend who was awaiting sentencing in federal court. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 12, Fla. Const.

On August 26, 1993, the Judicial Qualifications Commission filed a formal complaint charging Judge C. Lavon Ward, a Circuit...

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