The state Supreme Court ordered a six-month suspension and other penalties for a North Florida judge who has been the focus of potential impeachment proceedings launched by House Speaker Richard Corcoran.

The high court ordered the suspension of Circuit Judge Andrew Decker, a public reprimand and payment of costs following an investigation into alleged wrongdoing before he was elected to the bench in 2012. Decker is a judge in the Third Judicial Circuit, a sprawling rural area made up of Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee and Taylor counties.

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