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Florida voters will decide this election whether they want to retain two Florida Supreme Court justices. Get to know Renatha Francis.
According to the Florida Supreme Court's website, Sasso, 41, was raised in Tallahassee.She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida in 2005 and her law degree from the ...
In 1975, Florida Supreme Court justice David L. McCain tampered with a lower court decision on behalf of campaign supporters. Faced with impeachment proceedings, he resigned. [5] [6] In 1976, the state returned to appointed justices when the current merit retention system was put in place. [7] In 2004, the court had a backlog of 1,544 cases.
Kelley Armitage, Denial Ain't Just a River in Egypt: A Thorough Review of Judicial Elections, Merit Selection and the Role of State Judges in Society, 29 CAP. U. L. REV. 625 (2002). Russell Troutman, Florida Judicial Nominating Commissions, 54 Fla. B. J. 534, 534 (1980).
A judicial retention vote differs from a regular election in that voters are not asked to choose from a list of candidates — the judges on the ballot do not have opponents. Rather, the voter chooses between electing the incumbent judge to a further term in office (i.e. voting in favor of "retention") or voting against.
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Five incumbent judges across Central Florida also won their respective races. With the majority of precincts reporting, Recksiedler garnered 57% of the vote compared to Mannion, who received ...
From 2015 to 2020, Badalamenti served as a Judge of the Florida Second District Court of Appeal after being appointed by Governor Rick Scott. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Badalamenti won merit retention in 2016. His state court service ended when he was commissioned as a federal judge.