The state judicial watchdog agency chargedBroward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner with ethics violations today for allegedly starting a “close personal relationship” with a prosecutor during a murder case that produced a death penalty and failing to disclose the relationship to the defense.
Gardiner and Howard Scheinberg, then an assistant Broward state attorney, communicated 1,420 times by phone and text messages in about five months between the time the relationship began during trial and the sentencing of Omar Loureiro in 2007, according to a seven-page notice of charges filed by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission.
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