Word: lawton
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...Chief Justice Charles T. Wells Appointed to the court by the late Democratic governor Lawton Chiles in 1994. Considered a moderate by court-watchers. Came under fire, along with Justice Harding (see below), for communicating in secret with Republican lawmakers during a legislative debate over the death penalty...
...Justice Henry Lee Anstead Appointed by Lawton Chiles in 1994. Characterized as an extremely bright judge who is not opposed to taking risks...
...Justice Major B. HardingAppointed by Lawton Chiles in 1991. Perhaps the most conservative-leaning of the group...
...Justice R. Fred Lewis Appointed by Lawton Chiles in 1998. Too recent an addition to generate any substantial buzz...
...scouring the Internet for solid handicaps, I stumbled across a site called horsestats.com. For $50 a week, Geoffrey Rout, genius that he is, gives you one mortal lock. Since we are "problem gamblers," and since anything that expensive must, we reasoned, be worth something, we subscribed. As I forsook Lawton, the oracle of my childhood, I knew how Judas felt...