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If a JQC complaint is filed against LaBarga, how will proceedings be handled involving a Supreme Court Justice?ARTICLE V SECTION 12. Discipline; removal and retirement.--(e) Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this section, if the person who is the subject of proceedings by the judicial qualifications commission is a justice of the supreme court of Florida all justices of such court automatically shall be disqualified to sit as justices of such court with respect to all proceedings therein concerning such person and the supreme court for such purposes shall be composed of a panel consisting of the seven chief judges of the judicial circuits of the state of Florida most senior in tenure of judicial office as circuit judge...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on January 02, 2009 (boomark / email).