Florida judge says she was wrong to act as her son's attorney
A Leon County circuit judge admitted she was wrong to present herself as her son’s attorney after he was arrested in a shooting incident.
A state investigative panel accused Judge Barbara Hobbs of improper judicial behavior by acting as her son’s attorney. The allegations, in part, stem from a July incident in which Hobbs’ son was accused of shooting a woman through a closed door at his residence.
Hobbs went to the Tallahassee police station and said she was representing her son as his attorney after being told by police “that only his lawyer could have access to her son during the period of interrogation,” Hobbs’ lawyers wrote Friday in a 10-page response to charges filed by a panel of the Judicial Qualifications Commission at the Florida Supreme Court.
“She acknowledges that she should not have presented herself as her son’s lawyer and regrets her conduct,” the judge’s lawyers said, noting that she “self-reported her conduct” to the commission the following day. At the time she represented her son, Hobbs was assigned to preside over felony cases in Leon County, an April 28 notice of charges against the judge said.
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