HOME U.S. POLITI CS WORL D BUSINESS TE CHL A ND HEA LT H ARTS TRAVE L PE OPL E PHOTOS VI DE O SPE CIALS M AGAZI NE NEWSFE E D Sponsored Links SHOCKING: 2010 Honda Civic for $1, 734.09 Is thi s price real? YES! We rev eal the TRUTH! www.ctips.net EXPOSED: Make $99/hr Online BRE AKING NEWS: People are beating the recession byworking at home. www.News18Report.c... Buy a link here More on TIME.com 20 Back-To- School Gadgets Katrina: Five Years After Top 10 RidiculouslyViolent Movies Subscribe to Time » Give a Gift » MOBILE APPS Main The Page Poli ti cs Swampl an d Assi gn ment D etroit The Det roit Bl og Re al Clear Poli ti cs White Ho use Pho to Blog Videos U.S. Monday, Aug. 18, 1986 All in the FamilyEven a s she showered her sons with the proceed s from her $10 million tobacco fortune, Margaret HitchcockBenson lived in fear of them. There were constant fights and drugs and a nightmarish unhappiness that led her to believe that one or another of them was stealing her funds and wanted her dead. Her apprehension was well founded. A year ago, as she sat in her station wag- on in the driveway of her home in the wealthy South Florida city of Naples, a powerful pipe bomb explod ed between the front seats. Marga ret Benson, 63, and her adopted s on Scott, 21, were killed immediately. Her daughter Carol Lynn, now 42, was seriously injured but escaped from the car moments before a second bomb blast. Last week, after deliberating 11 1/2 hours on testimony heard during a four- week trial, a jury in nearby Fort Myers found her son Steven Benson, 35, guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, two of felony murder and five relating to arson and unlawful explosives. Judge Hugh D. Hayes Jr. said he intended to heed the jury's recommendation for life in prison when formal sentencing occurs next month. Prosecutors pr esented 52 witnesse s w ho painted Steven as an improvident drifte r w hose busines s failures apparently led him to misappropriate some of his mother's fortune. Only days before the explosions, Margaret Benson asked a family lawyer to investigate. Steven, the prosecutor argu ed, feared dis inheritance. Experts testi fied that his handprints were found on receipts for a length of4-in.-diameter pipe ($36.08 , including tax ) an d two pip e endpieces ($28.05 total) of the kind used in the fatal bombs. Steven's sister, her face bearing ugly burn scars from the bombing, told the court tha t he left the ca r just before the blast, ostensibly to get something from the house, and kept his back to her as she screamed for help. Steven's lawyers contended that the killings could hav e been the work of young Scott's enemies, made during a fast-track life ofgirl chasing and drug buying. Scott, it was disclosed after the murders, was the out-of-wedlock son of Carol Lynn; he had been legally adopted by his grandmother. Steven, consid ered mild-mannered aroun d Naples, where the freshly widowed Margaret Benson had moved from Lancaster, Pa., in 1980, wept twice during the trial. When the verdict was pronounced, he sat in choked silence. The defense planned to Most Popular » Full List » MOST READ MOST EMAIL E D 1 . Lindsay Lohan: From 'Machet e' to the 'Mo st Offe nsiv e' Movie Ev er 2. How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular 3. Can the Brazilians Rescue Burger King? 4. Is rael: Now, More than Ever , Fascinated ByNetanyahu 5. Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outliv e Nondrinkers? 6. Ambition: Wh y Some People Are Most Likelyto Succeed 7 . How Can a Democracy Solve Tough Problems? 8. Why Is rael Doesn' t Car e About Peace 9. Tony Blair on Clinton, Bush and the American Character 1 0. Getting Real About th e High Price of Cheap Food More News from Our Partners Earl weakens as it heads north Gi rl, 4, weighed 15 pounds at death Six charged in Hawaii with trafficking Thai guest workers Lisa Rinna' s Bikini Tweet Homage To Demi Moore (PHOTO) Jan Brewer Admits She Was Wrong About Beheading Claims Gi rl In Puppy Throwing Video Found By Bosnian Police MORE NEWSLETTERS ADD TIME NE WS SEARCH TIME.COM 9/4/2010 All in the Family - TIME time.com/…/0,9171,962046,00.html 1/2
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8/8/2019 TIME Hugh D Hayes PUBLIC REPRIMAND Supreme Court Opinion 73502
We have for review the report of the Florida Judicial
Qualifications Commission recommending that Judge Hugh D. Hayes,
Circuit Judge of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit of Florida, be
given a public reprimand for the violation of Canons 1, 2 and
3A(6) of the Code of Judicial Conduct. We have jurisdiction.
Art. V, § 12, Fla. Const.
The Judicial Qualifications Commission instituted formal
proceedings against Judge Hugh D. Hayes alleging that
[dluring the murder trial of Steven Benson in1986, while serving as presiding judge in thattrial, [Judge Hayes] discussed with journalist
Michael Mewshaw on multiple occasions theprogress of the trial, [his] opinions andreactions to the conduct of participatingattorneys, witnesses and the jury, withknowledge that such discussions, comments andexpressions of opinion, though given "off therecord," would be used by journalist Mewshaw inmaterial that he was preparing for publication.Direct quotes in such publication entitled Monevto Rurn: The Storv of the Benson F&lv Murdersattribute to [Judge Hayes's] gross unjudicialstatements.
8/8/2019 TIME Hugh D Hayes PUBLIC REPRIMAND Supreme Court Opinion 73502
