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Graig Graziosi

Judge suspended for making ‘G-rated dad jokes’ about defendants. He claims he was ‘trying to lighten the tension’

Broward Circuit Judge Gary M. Farmer Jr. has been indefinitely suspended after the state's judicial qualifications commission determined the jokes he was making to defendants were "inappropriate" - (17th Judicial Circuit of Florida)

A judge in Florida was suspended for telling "inappropriate, undignified, or discourteous" jokes to help "lighten the tension" in the courtroom.

The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission has indefinitely suspended Broward Circuit Judge Gary Farmer Jr for making jokes during his hearings, according to Law & Crime.

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