A slap on the wrist to Florida judge Gregory Holder who advocated out of court for a litigant who appeared in front of him, a former Green Beret who pointed a pistol at a person, uttered a racist slur and urinated at the counter of a Muslim gas station clerk

On June 7, 2016 I wrote a blog about #JudgeGregoryHolder, of Florida, who advocated for a former "Green Beret", over whose cases the judge presided, to the point of writing to a Senator, pleading to a college board not to expel the violent veteran from college and accusing the board of misconduct when they still expelled the former Green Beret.

You can read in the blog that I interlinked above an account of what the Green Beret did - complete with pointing a pistol in the face of a person, uttering a racist slur and urinating on the counter at a gas station.

The Florida judicial authorities just issued a ruling as to Judge Holder's behavior.

The ruling:

"guilty of misconduct", the judge violated 5 canons of judicial conduct.

The sentence:

a reprimand and 5 hours of training in ethics.

Why?

The judicial qualification panel was afraid of another claim for millions of dollars in attorney fees by Judge Holder - in case the decision about his reprimand is overturned on appeal - like the one he made in 2005 when he was accused of plagiarizing a research paper when in the Army?  And the case was dismissed because the original of Judge Holder's paper "could not" be located or produced.

How coincidental.