Daily Record Financial News &
Friday, April 28, 2017
Vol. 104, No.119 • One Section
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WHEN A JUDGE BECOMES A VICTIM
Timothy Corrigan recounts attack on his life, its impact on his decision-making By Caren Burmeister Contributing Writer Four years ago, a man desperate not to return to prison viewed U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan in the crosshairs of a high-powered rifle scope and pulled the trigger. The metal casing on Corrigan’s living room window saved his life. The bullet intended for his head hit the metal and ricocheted, missing him by 1.6 inches. Corrigan’s personal account of the attempted assassination and his professional concerns about remaining impartial while on the bench capped a seminar hosted by the Jacksonville chapter of the Federal Bar Association on April 20.
The man who wanted him dead, Aaron Richardson, is serving 343 years in prison. His motive? Richardson had gone on a crime spree that violated the supervised parole Corrigan had given him. Those new crimes assured he would go back to prison. Corrigan said he and his wife, Nancy, were relaxing in their living room June 23, 2013, watching “The Closer” on TV after returning home from a friend’s wedding. Suddenly they heard an explosion and Nancy hit the ground, shouting, “Tim, it’s a gun.” In shock, Corrigan said he wasn’t as swift or as sharp. Photo by Fran Ruchalski
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U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Corrigan escaped an assassin’s bullet by 1.6 inches in 2013.
Mathis, Zickuhr to lead Daily Record newsroom Marbut promoted, Cawton joins team From Staff Almost 40-year Jacksonville business journalist Karen Mathis has been named editor of the Financial News & Daily Record. Mathis’ appointment this week was among a series of editorial staff changes that the Daily Record’s new owner and publisher, Matt Walsh, has implemented since acquiring the paper in mid-January. In addition to Mathis’ promotion, Walsh announced the appointments of Monty Zickuhr to managing editor, Max Marbut to associate editor-legal affairs and David Cawton as staff writer. “I’ve known Karen and followed Karen’s work for close to
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Constitution Revision Commission gets earful Gun rights, voting issues among the top suggestions
“I’m impressed with the preparation.” Hank Coxe, Attorney and Florida Constitution Revision Commissioner
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30 years,” Walsh said. “Karen is a force in the business community here, the face of the Daily Record and the reason the Daily Record is full of valuable content five days a week. “I’m thrilled for Karen, and feel lucky to have as our editor,” Walsh said. Mathis will oversee the Daily Record’s editorial operations and staff, as well as the company’s monthly, Realty-Builder Connection, and website, jaxdailyrecord.com. She also will continue to cover the commercial real-estate industry and its connection
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with economic development. “I’ve watched Matt Walsh’s career throughout my years in Jacksonville and have always respected his writing, insight, analysis, tenacity and integrity. He inspires our team and is leading us to new goals,” she said. Mathis previously worked seven years as managing editor of the Daily Record. Before that, she spent almost 30 years as a business writer, columnist and editor at The Florida TimesUnion. She also spent more than two Newsroom
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The Florida Constitution Revision Commission’s “Floridians Speak, We Listen” tour made a stop in Jacksonville on Thursday and heard a wide range of suggestions from the public related to how the state’s most fundamental laws might be amended by voters in about 18 months. The commission is a group of 37 members appointed by the governor, state senate president, speaker of the house, chief justice of the Supreme Court and state attorney general. The process only takes place every 20 years. After getting input from the public, the commission may
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make recommendations for constitutional amendments that could be placed on the November 2018 general election ballot. If amendments are placed on the ballot, they will require a 60 percent majority from voters to be enacted. Jacksonville attorney Hank Coxe, who was appointed to the commission by Chief Justice Jorge Labarga, said after the meeting at Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Kent Campus — the commission’s sixth public hearing — that he’s noticed some trends. “People are similar in what Commission
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