A lawyer for death row inmate Terrance Phillips wants the Florida Supreme Court to order an investigation into allegations of racism involving the circuit judge who sentenced the Jacksonville man to death, including accusations that the judge once said blacks should “go back to Africa.”
Judge Mark Hulsey, elected in 2010 in the Fourth Judicial Circuit, is already the subject of an inquiry by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission, which on July 19 filed a notice of formal charges against him for allegedly making sexist and racist comments and for a lack of knowledge about “basic information about capital trial procedures.”
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