“House ethics panel sets trial in Daisy Baez residency case” via Jim Rosica of Florida Politics – The House's ethics panel on Thursday scheduled a Dec. 4 hearing on a charge that Democratic Miami-Dade Rep. Baez doesn't live in the district she was elected to represent. The Public Integrity and Ethics Committee will conduct an evidentiary hearing “somewhat like a court trial," said chair LarryMetz, a Yalaha Republican. "You’re trying to find what the facts are and make a conclusion." The hearing will be the first time in modern memory that the House tried a member on a conduct violation related to residency. The committee's verdict will then go to the full House of Representatives, two-thirds of which would have to vote to expel her.
Mark Herron, Baez’s Tallahassee-based attorney, said despite recent precedent for such a proceeding, his client is “getting a heck of due process. But again, we’ll really know when I need to seek a subpoena” on her behalf, and it’s granted or denied.
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