INQUIRY CONCERNING A JUDGE, RE PAUL M. MARKO, III
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Florida Supreme Court approved a public reprimand of Judge Paul M. Marko, III for conduct that lessened public confidence in the judiciary through rude and inappropriate remarks made during a dissolution of marriage hearing.
A judge who makes rude, inappropriate, and demeaning remarks to a litigant during a hearing violates the Code of Judicial Conduct and is subject to public reprimand.
[1] A judge's rude, demeaning, and inappropriate remarks to a litigant during a hearing, designed to lessen public confidence in the judiciary, violate the Code of Judicial C…
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Remarks made by Judge Marko to the wife during the dissolution of marriage hearing in Price v. Price
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PER CURIAM.
We are called upon to enter an appropriate order in a disciplinary matter regarding a judge. We have jurisdiction under article V, section 12, Florida Constitution. The judge, Paul M. Marko, III, and the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission have entered into a written stipulation recommending a public reprimand. We approve the stipulation which contains the findings of the Commission, in pertinent part, as follows:
1. You have conducted yourself in a manner designed to lessen public confidence in the dignity, integrity and impartiality of the judiciary, in violation of Canons 1, 2, 3 A(2) and 3 A(3) of the Code of Judicial Conduct.
2. You have exhibited rude, improper and inappropriate behavior at a dissolution of marriage hearing in Price v. Price, in that you used inappropriate language when you remarked to the wife to “... go out and get another guy ... the single bars are full of them ... there are all kinds of bimbos in those places, and there are all kinds of guys running around in open shirts with eagles on their chests. There are great guys out there ... you go find a brain surgeon.”
In the stipulation Judge Marko regrets and apologizes for his conduct. No one suggests that Judge Marko is presently unfit to serve as a judge.
By publication of this opinion, Judge Marko is reprimanded for the events described above.
It is so ordered.
SHAW, C.J., and OVERTON, McDonald, barkett, grimes, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.
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