No. 21-7658

Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2022-04-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 14th-amendment disbarment due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct professional-conduct racial-bias racial-discrimination
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2022-06-16
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Florida Supreme Court deprived an African-American lawyer of Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under the 14th Amendment

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW @ Whether The Florida Supreme Court deprived an African-American lawyer of Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by this court in Marshall v. Jerrico, 446 U.S. 238 (1980), when it denied a Motion For Review Due to Manifest Injustice, and upheld a permanent disbarment, when the White-American Judge assigned as the Referee, interjected at the Bar Trial during The Florida Bar's presentation of its case in chief, with a racially charged narrative, that was based on religious principles, and expounded to a witness upon his 40 years of experience as a lawyer and compared the African-American lawyer's conduct to that of himself, the Judge's colleagues and other members of The Florida Bar and apologized to the witness and asked for forgiveness for the "transgressions" of the African-American lawyer and suggested that said lawyer was unfit to practice? e Whether The Florida Supreme Court deprived a lawyer of Due Process and a Neutral Judiciary under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by this court in Tumey v. Ohio, 273 U.S. 510 (1927), when it denied a Motion For Review Due to Manifest Injustice, when the Judge assigned as the Referee was also the presiding Judge for an ongoing foreclosure case for one of the witnesses and the lawyer facing disciplinary proceedings was the defense lawyer for that witness in the ongoing foreclosure case, and one of the issues at Bar Trial was the amount of attorney's fees that were due and owing the attorney from the witness for a series of cases that he had represented her and her family in? | iii | e Whether The Florida Supreme Court deprived a lawyer of Due Process under the | | 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution when the Judge assigned as the Referee failed to submit the required Certificate of Referee, which The Florida Supreme Court has set forth as a requirement before a Judge can be qualified to be a Referee? ig

Docket Entries

2022-08-22
Rehearing DENIED.
2022-07-28
DISTRIBUTED.
2022-07-18
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2022-06-21
Petition DENIED.
2022-06-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/16/2022.
2022-04-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 19, 2022)

Attorneys

Mizell Campbell Jr.
Mizell Campbell Jr. — Petitioner