Case Title: In Re Capua

Citation: 561 So. 2d 574

Docket Number: 

State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

Date: 1990-05-17T00:00:00Z

Document:
561 So. 2d 574 (1990)
In re Inquiry Concerning a Judge, re: S. Peter CAPUA.
No. 75203.

Supreme Court of Florida.
May 17, 1990.
J. Klein Wigginton, Chairman, Roy T. Rhodes, Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, and John R. Lawson, Jr. and G. Calvin Hayes of Lawson, McWhirter, Grandoff & Reeves, Sp. Counsel, Tampa, for petitioner, Florida Judicial Qualifications Com'n.
E.J. Salcines, Tampa, and Robert L. Floyd of Floyd, Pearson, Richman, Greer, Weil, Zack & Brumbaugh, P.A., Miami, for respondent, Honorable S. Peter Capua, Circuit Court Judge.
PER CURIAM.
This proceeding is before the Court on review of the recommendation of the Judicial Qualifications Commission.
The Judicial Qualifications Commission served its Notice of Formal Charges upon *575 S. Peter Capua, a Judge of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. The notice alleged as follows:
Judge Capua thereafter filed an answer in which he asserted that the instances of commingling consisted of his depositing client funds to and disbursing them from his office operating account rather than a trust account; and that the closing statement violations consisted of his failure to retain complete copies of fully executed closing statements, rather than a failure to provide closing statements. Judge Capua also denied certain of the allegations in formal charge number three.
The Commission and Judge Capua have now filed with this Court a stipulation as to the facts, accompanied by the Commission's recommendation as to discipline in this matter. The Stipulation and Recommendation read as follows:
We accordingly accept and approve the Stipulation and Recommendation and we hereby reprimand Judge S. Peter Capua for conduct unbecoming a judicial officer.
It is so ordered.
EHRLICH, C.J., and OVERTON, McDONALD, SHAW, BARKETT and GRIMES, JJ., concur.
KOGAN, J., recused.