Broward County Court Judge Gisele Pollack—removed from the bench for substance abuse—will be in rehabilitation for as long as six months.
Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein, himself an admitted recovering alcoholic, said that if Pollack, 55, recovers and is cleared to work again by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission, she likely will never return to her post presiding over misdemeanor drug court.
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