A key House panel used a judge accused of once throwing his law firm’s clients “under the bus,” and whose case has awaited action from the Florida Supreme Court for more than a year, to highlight the chamber’s dissatisfaction with how judicial wrongdoing is handled.
The House Public Integrity and Ethics Committee focused on the case of Judge Andrew Decker of Live Oak, the subject of an investigation by the Judicial Qualifications Commission for alleged wrongdoing as a lawyer before his 2014 election and as a candidate for the Third Judicial Circuit post.
