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By Martin A. Dyckman
In the Nineteen Seventies, justices at the Florida preferrred court docket have been popularly elected. yet a couple of scandals threatened to topple the court docket until eventually public outrage resulted in profound reforms and primary adjustments within the means justices have been seated.
One justice by surprise retired after being filmed on a high-roller junket to Las Vegas. others attempted to mend circumstances in decrease courts on behalf of crusade supporters. A fourth destroyed proof by way of shredding his reproduction of a record into "seventeen equivalent" strips of paper that he then flushed down a toilet.
As the journalist who wrote lots of the tales that revealed those occasions, Martin Dyckman performed a key position in revealing the corruption, favoritism, and cronyism then rampant within the court.
A so much Disorderly Court recounts this darkish interval in Florida politics, whilst attractive revelations usually got here to mild. He additionally lines the reform efforts that eventually ended in a constitutional modification supplying for the appointment of all Florida's appellate judges, and emphasizes absolutely the significance of personal resources for journalists.
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