MIAMI – Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner resigned while facing an ethics trial on misconduct charges alleging she developed a close personal relationship with a prosecutor while presiding over one of his murder trials.
The state’s judicial watchdog agency last month charged Gardiner with failing to disclose to the defense her relationship with then-Assistant State Attorney Howard Scheinberg. The Judicial Qualifications Commission contended Gardiner communicated 1,420 times by phone and text during the case that produced the death penalty for Omar Loureiro, who has been granted a new trial.
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