Concluding former Broward Circuit Judge Ana I. Gardiner "provided a deceitful and dishonest portrayal" of her relationship with a state prosecutor in a murder case, Palm Beach Circuit Judge David Crow has recommended a one-year suspension of her law license.

Gardiner and prosecutor Howard Scheinberg exchanged more than 1,400 phone calls and text messages between the beginning of Omar Loureiro’s trial until he was sentenced to death in 2007.