Happy Birthday Justice Perry.  I Hope You Like What I Got You, It's a Big Package of You Lose Your Job and Rick Scott Gets His First Florida Supreme Court Appointment.

And it is Fifth DCA Judge C. Alan Lawson.  I do not know Judge Lawson, so I cannot give any personal insight into this appointment.  I am familiar with the judge who was forced into retirement by the state law mandating judicial retirement at age 70, Justice Perry, and think he did an excellent job and was on the right side of most recent criminal justice issues that have come before the Court.  I will note that Justice Perry is black and Judge Lawson is white.  The fact is that the prototypical face of a Florida State Prison inmate, and thus the face of the Petitioner in a huge part of the Florida Supreme Court docket, is a black male face.  Some might see an advantage in having one out of seven who is a black man, but we no longer will.

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