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55 Fla. B.J. 1 (1981)

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ADVANCING COMPETENCE AND PUBLIC RESPONSIBI Y OF LAWYERS

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The Florida Bar Journal (ISBN 0015-3915)

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Editorial Staff
John F. Harkness, Jr., Editor
Linda H. Yates, Managing Editor
Paul F. Hill, Associate Editor, Legal
Advertising & Production
Cheryle M. Dodd, Associate Editor
Judith Nable, Art Production
Clara Mae Hart, Advertising Assistant
Gail Grimes, Circulation
Sharie Wharton, Typesetting
Officers of The Florida Bar
Leonard H. Gilbert, Tampa
President
Samuel S. Smith, Miami Beach
President-elect
John F. Harkness, Jr., Tallahassee
Executive Director
Editorial Board
W. Dexter Douglass, Chairman,
Tallahassee; Everett P. Anderson,
Vice Chairman, Tallahassee; Daniel
0. White, Vice Chairman, Orlando;
G. Robert Arnold, Orlando; Robert
G. Cochran, Tampa; Linda
Denise Earley, Atlanta, GA; Charles
David Edelstein, Miami; Bruce W.
Flower, Orlando; Irving D. Gaines,
Milwaukee, WI; Kenneth F. Hoffman,
Tallahassee, Judith Smith
Kavanaugh, Bradenton; Don A.
Lynn, Miami; Robert W. Martin, Jr.,
Tallahassee; M. Terry McNab,
Tallahassee; George C. J. Moore,
West Palm Beach; Stephen E. Nagin,
Washington, D.C.; Barbara Ropes
Pankau, Tampa; Benjamin K.
Phipps II, Tallahassee; Bruce S.
Rogow, Ft. Lauderdale; Marsha G.
Rydberg, Tampa; Barrett Sanders,
Miami; Leonard E. Schulte,
Tallahassee; Edward Siegel,
Jacksonville; Ruth Fleet Thurman,
St. Petersburg; Stephen H. Whilden,
Hollywood; Board Liaison: Talbot
D'Alemberte, Miami
The Board of Governors
A. Edward Moore, Jr., first circuit;
Ben H. Wilkinson, David V. Kerns,
second circuit; Edwin B. Browning,
Jr., third circuit; John M. McNatt, Jr.,
James C. Rinaman, Jr., fourth circuit;
Edwin C. Cluster, fifth circuit; N.
David Korones, Robert H. Willis,
sixth circuit; Frank D. Newman,
seventh circuit; Stephen A.
Rappenecker, eighth circuit; William
Trickel, Jr., Robert J. Pleus, Jr., ninth
circuit; William 0. E. Henry, tenth
circuit; Gerald F. Richman, Irwin J.
Block, Robert L. Parks, Boyce F.
Ezell III, Tobias Simon, Talbot
D'Alemberte, Robert C. Josefsberg,
eleventh circuit; Harry G. Goodheart
Ill, twelfth circuit; J. Bert Grandoff,
Bill Wagner, thirteenth circuit
Rowlett W. Bryant, fourth circuit;
Sidney A. Stubbs, Jr., John L. Burns,
fifteenth circuit; Nathan E. Eden,
sixteenth circuit; 0. Edgar Williams,
Jr., Drake M Batchelder, Hugh S.
Glickstein, seventeenth circuit;
Frank R. Pound, Jr., eighteenth
circuit; Walter M. Meginnis,
nineteenth circuit; Charles B.
Edwards, twentieth circuit; Donald
C. Evans, Jr., out-of-state; Stephen
N. Zack, President, and Michael J.
McNerney, President-elect; Young
Lawyers Section.

VOLUME LV NO 1
JANUARY 19811

FEATURES
8 A brilliant new courthouse-soon a reality for First DCA
Judge Robert P. Smith, Jr., describes the new building that will
house the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee
12 A quick look at Florida's new right of privacy
Gerald B. Cope, Jr., explains how Florida's new constitutional
amendment will recognize each individual's fundamental right
of privacy
16 Defending a willful failure to file income tax case
Peter W. Mettler details the nature of the crime of willful failure
and presents some possible defenses
20 The American jury-vanishing or only shrinking?
Judge Jim R. Carrigan of Colorado defends the right to trial by
jury and notes how Supreme Court support for 12-member
juries has eroded
28 Viewpoint-electronic recording fails test
James A. Dixon, Jr., gives his opinion that electronic recording
as a means of transcribing trials fails to meet the accuracy test
64 The lawyer on paper
Leonard Schulte begins a new monthly column designed to
help lawyers become better writers
REPORTS
4 President's page
Leonard H. Gilbert explains the need to educate the public
about merit retention
6 Executive directions
John F. Harkness, Jr., discusses how the grievance system
works
7 Fifty years ago this month
What the Journal reported in January 1931
30 Letters
31 Books
55 Index to advertisers
LAW NOTES

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Labor law by Thomas C. Garwood, Jr. and Geoffrey B. Schwartz
Tax law notes by David M. Hudson
Administrative law by George L. Waas
Law office economics by Carolyn S. Dalton
Criminal law by George A. Tragos
Environmental law by David M. Levin

COVER
The cover rendering of the new First District Court of Appeal
courthouse is by Peter A. Koenig, associate professor of interior
design, Florida State University. See related article on page 8.
Published monthly except July/August is combined issue, by The Florida Bar. 600 Apalachee
Parkway, Tallahassee 32301. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Tallahassee, Florida 32301
and at additional mailing offices. The Florida Bar Journal (ISSN 0015-3915).
Subscriptions: Florida Bar members receive the Journal as part of their annual dues payment.
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Advertising copy is carefully reviewed but publication herein does not necessarily imply endorsement
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Views and conclusions expressed in articles herein are those of the authors not necessarily those of
the editorial staff, officials or Board of Governors of The Florida Bar, Manuscripts may be submitted.
typed doublespaced, to Editor. The Florida Bar Journal, Tallahassee, Florida 32301.
@ 1981 The Florida Bar. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Florida Bar Journal. Tallahassee,
Florida 32301.

THE FLORIDA BAR JOURNAL/JANUARY 1981

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