CHIEF JUSTICE: THE FIRST MATTER THAT THE COURT HAS ON ITS DOCKET THIS MORNING IS THE ISSUE OF THE PUBLIC REPRIMAND OF JUDGE HOLLOWAY. WOULD YOU PLEASE TAKE THE PODIUM. STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE CODE WHICH YOU HAVE VIOLATED. THE FINDINGS OF THE JUDICIAL QUALIFICATIONS COMMISSION WHICH YOU APPROVED, INDICATE THAT YOU GAVE DECEITFUL AND MISLEADING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS WITH RESPECT TO MATERIAL INFORMATION IN A SWORN DEPOSITION AND THAT YOU HAD IMPROPER EXPARTE COMMUNICATIONS CONCERNING A PENDING CASE, WITH TWO CIRCUIT JUDGES IN YOUR CIRCUIT. AT THE VERY FOUNDATION OF OUR SYSTEM OF JUSTICE ARE THE CANONS OF THE CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT, WHICH REQUIRE A JUDGE TO ACT WITH INTEGRITY AT ALL TIMES, TO UPHOLD THE INTEGRITY AND INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY AND TO AVOID IMPROPRIETY AND THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. RESPECT FOR THE JUDGMENTS OF JUDGES DIRECTLY DEPENDS ON THE BAR AND CITIZENS' TRUST AND CONFIDENCE THAT JUDGES ACT WITH INTEGRITY AND INDEPENDENCE AT ALL TIMES. CANON ONE OF THE CODE REQUIRES JUDGES TO UPHOLD AND PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF THE JUDICIARY, THE VERY CORNERSTONE UPON WHICH OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IS BUILT. CANON TWO OF THE CODE REQUIRES JUDGE S TO AVOID EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY. TO RESPECT AND COMPLY WITH THE LAW AND TO ACT ONLY IN A MANNER THAT PROMOTES PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE JUDICIARY. FURTHERMORE, CANNON TWO STATES THAT A JUDGE -- CANON TWO STATES THAT A JUDGE, QUOTE, SHALL NOT FAMILY, SOCIAL, POLITICAL OR OTHER SOCIAL RELATION SHIPTS TO INFLUENCE THE JUDGE -- RELATIONSHIPS TO INFLUENCE THE JUDGE'S JUDICIAL CONDUCTOR JUDGMENT AND TO NOT ADVANCE THE PRIVATE INTEREST OF THE JUDGE OR OTHERS. CANON THREE REQUIRES THAT A JUDGE PERFORM HIS OR HER DUTIES IMPARTIALLY, REFRAIN FROM EXPARTE COMMUNICATIONS AND FROM PUBLIC COMMENT CONCERNING THE PROCEEDING. CANON FIVE REQUIRES JUDGE TO SAY CONDUCT THEIR PERSONAL AFFAIRS IN A MANNER THAT MINIMIZES CONFLICTS WITH JUDICIAL DUTIES. WHERE A JUDGE IS CALLED TO GIVE SWORN TESTIMONY IN A COURT PROCEEDING, EITHER IN PERSON OR BY DEPOSITION, A JUDGE HAS THE UNEQUIVOCAL OBLIGATION TO ANSWER TRUTHFULLY, THOROUGHLY AND CANDIDLY, NOT WITH MISLEADING AND DECEITFUL INFORMATION. AS JUDGES, WE KNOW THAT THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IS DEPENDENT ON ALL WITNESSES TESTIFYING TRUTHFULLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROMISE TO DO SO. IT IS NECESSARY THAT A JUDGE, HERSELF, TESTIFY FRUITFULLY WHEN CALLED AS A WITNESS. YOU VIOLATED THE CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT WITH YOUR MISLEADING AND DECEITFUL ANSWERS TO DEPOSITION QUESTIONS AND, OF COURSE, THAT DID HARM TO THE JUDICIARY AND THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM. THE INTEGRITY AND INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY REQUIRES THAT A JUDGE PRESIDING IN A CASE BE FREE OF ANY EXPARTE COMMUNICATIONS WHICH WOULD BE MATERIAL TO THE CASE. PLAINLY,nr THIS INCLUDES ANY COMMUNICATION MATERIAL TO THE CASE BY ANOTHER JUDGE OF THE SAME COURT, WHO HAS ANY KIND OF INTEREST IN THE CASE. SUCH EXPARTE COMMUNICATION UNDERMINES THE PUBLIC'S TRUST AND CONFIDENCE THAT THE PRESIDING JUDGE WILL BE INDEPENDENT OF ALL IMPROPER COMMUNICATIONS OR INFLUENCES. YOUR CONTACTS WITH TWO JUDGES CONCERNING CASES OVER WHICH THOSE JUDGES WERE PRESIDING, WERE IMPROPER EXPARTE CONTACTS AND WERE DETRIMENTAL TO THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM. FOR THESE BREACHES OF THE CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT, WE HAVE APPROVED THE SERIOUS SANCTIONS THAT I HAVE REFERRED TO BEFORE AND THIS PUBLIC REPRIMAND THAT YOU NOW STAND TO RECEIVE IN THIS APPEARANCE BEFORE THE COURT. IT IS OUR GENUINE HOPE THAT THE SANCTIONS WE HAVE I AM PEAS-THAT WE HAVE IMPOSED, INCLUDING -- THAT THE SANCTIONS WE HAVE IMPOSED, INCLUDING THIS REPRIMAND, SHOW OUR INTOLERANCE FOR MISCONDUCT AND JUST AS IMPORTANTLY WILL CAUSE YOU TO RESOLVE THAT HENCEFORTH YOUR CONDUCT, BOTH ON AND OFF THE BENCH, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE ABOVE REPROACH AND INSPIRE OTHERS TO HAVE GENUINE CONFIDENCE IN YOUR INTEGRITY AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE FLORIDA JUSTICE SYSTEM. JUDGE HOLLOWAY, THIS HAPMANNED IS ENDED. YOU ARE EXCUSED.