In a first in The Florida Bar’s prosecution of an attorney, a Miami lawyer filed a First-Amendment Anti-SLAPP motion near midnight Wednesday to the Florida Supreme Court, asking the justices to dismiss his client’s ethics case.

David Winker is among the counsel for Bruce Jacobs, an embattled foreclosure defense attorney who made a series of statements that landed him in hot water with the bar.

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