IN RE EASTMOORE

No. 69754.

504 So.2d 756 (1987)

In re Inquiry Concerning a Judge, Judge E.L. EASTMOORE.

Supreme Court of Florida.

March 26, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen T. Phillips, Chairman, Pensacola, John S. Rawls, General Counsel, Tallahassee, and Mark Hulsey and E. Lanny Russell of Smith & Hulsey, Jacksonville, Special Counsel, for Florida Judicial Qualifications Com'n, petitioner.

Richard C. McFarlain, of McFarlain, Bobo, Sternstein, Wiley and Cassedy, P.A., Tallahassee, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

The Judicial Qualifications Commission has recommended that Circuit Judge E.L. Eastmoore be publicly reprimanded. Judge Eastmoore, while admitting the facts upon which the recommendation is based, contends that his conduct was not of a kind warranting reprimand. We disagree.

The first count arose from the judge's order compelling a newspaper reporter to come to his chambers. The command appearance was not connected to any legal proceedings but...

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