By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe battle over the Florida 1st District Court of Appeal's new Tallahassee headquarters continued Tuesday, with the court defending the project and a firefighter contending it put the court's chief judge in a compromising position with a defense lawyer involved in the project.Chief Judge Paul Hawkes on Tuesday released a seven-page response to a series of stories in the St. Petersburg Times that have labeled the $48 million complex on Tallahassee's eastern edge a "Taj Mahal."The newspaper reported that the bulk of the financing for the proje...
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