heh. just one little tiny detail is being left out in the comparison between rush limbaugh and this judge... that detail being that the judge was FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM HIS BENCH. which is exactly what should have happened to the disfunctional, drug-addled rush limbaugh. if they want to use this judge as an example, rush should STEP DOWN FROM HIS LITTLE BULLY PULPIT. then the comparison will make sense.
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/local_news_04a45a33438881ad009e.htmlLimbaugh cites judge's case in claiming prosecutorial bias
By Susan Spencer-Wendel, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 7, 2004
WEST PALM BEACH -- Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has said prosecutors, specifically State Attorney Barry Krischer, a Democrat, have set out on a "fishing expedition" against him.
On Friday, Limbaugh, who is being investigated for illegal "doctor-shopping," offered up new evidence of unfair treatment.
On his syndicated talk show and on his Web site, he referred to the case of a Palm Beach County judge removed from the bench last year after it became public he was addicted to OxyContin.
County Judge Robert Schwartz was forced off the bench in February 2003, after a year of being unable to function partly because of his addiction. Schwartz was never investigated criminally, though -- an unfair double standard, Limbaugh's camp said.
"After admitting an eight-year addiction, Judge Schwartz entered treatment voluntarily and was praised by the community, not investigated and never prosecuted by the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office," Roy Black, Limbaugh's attorney, said in a statement Friday.
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Chief Judge Edward Fine said Friday that judicial commission members investigated Schwartz's situation, consulted with doctors, and that no allegation of anything criminal ever came to light, so there was no criminal investigation.
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