As 2014 runs its course, Broward County Court Judge Gisele Pollack will wonder if her testimony about recovering from addiction convinced a judicial ethics panel she can be relied on to keep her alcoholism from disrupting her work on the bench.

In her struggle to return to the bench after being yanked off twice for courtroom intoxication, Pollack took the stand last week and bared her soul. She confessed to a lifelong battle with alcohol and relapses that concerned her friends and colleagues long before she slammed her car into another vehicle May 1.

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