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You are here: Home / News / FL: Here Comes the Judge, in Cuffs

FL: Here Comes the Judge, in Cuffs

June 27, 2014

In Broward County, Fla., Spate of Judges in D.U.I. Arrests

Judge Lynn D. Rosenthal was arrested on a D.U.I. charge last month in the parking lot of the Broward County, Fla., courthouse. Credit JAABLOG

Judge Lynn D. Rosenthal was arrested on a D.U.I. charge last month in the parking lot of the Broward County, Fla., courthouse. Credit JAABLOG

MIAMI — Lawyers gawked from office windows last month when a BMW S.U.V. swiped a parked police cruiser in the parking lot of a courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, then slammed into a gate over and over again.

A judge was at the wheel.

As lawyers used smartphones to snap pictures of the morning spectacle, Judge Lynn D. Rosenthal became the third Broward County judge in six months to be arrested on charges of driving under the influence. A colleague, Judge Gisele Pollack, had been suspended five days earlier after getting arrested on a D.U.I. charge while already on leave for taking the bench intoxicated — twice.

Even for South Florida, where absurd news events are routine and the sheriff went to prison for corruption, the spate of judicial scandals has raised serious questions about whether the arrests in Broward are a bizarre coincidence or underscore a larger systemic problem. [Read Full Article]

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