Supreme Court of Florida
The Florida Bar v. Bruce Jacobs
June 8, 2023370 So. 3d 876
Summary
The court upheld the referee’s findings that Bruce Jacobs violated Bar Rule 4-8.2(a) by making statements impugning the integrity of judges without an objectively reasonable factual basis. It rejected Jacobs’s selective-prosecution defense and concluded that the appropriate sanction was a 91-day rehabilitative suspension, rather than the referee’s 90-day non-rehabilitative suspension or the Bar’s proposed two-year suspension. The court also required compliance with applicable practice-closure and reinstatement conditions.