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DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW DECIPHERS SPECHLER RIDDLE

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DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW:Spechler reassignment, resignation came after disparaging remarks about fellow judge's sexual orientation"Courthouse sources said County Court Judge Jay Spechler?s reassignment came after he got into a verbal altercation with fellow County Court Judge Peggy Gehl and made disparaging comments about her sexual orientation...Rumors have circulated in the legal community for months that the state Judicial Qualifications Commission was looking at Spechler and several other local judges. Gehl is a member of the JQC...Attorney Michael Ahearn, a friend of Spechler?s, said the former judge has joined the Center for Conflict Resolution in North Miami, which was founded by former Bay Harbor Islands Mayor Thomas Glick and Rosanne Shore in 1997...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).