Carswell fined $100 for
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. P Former Judge G. Harrold Carswell, whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, has been fined $100 after pleading no contest to a battery charge involving alleged homosexual advances to a policeman.
Carswell, nominated to the high court by former President Richard Nixon in 1970, filed his plea in Leon County Court on Wednesday and was adjudged guilty by County Judge Hall McClamma, State Atty. Harry Morrison said yesterday.
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The maximum penalty for the of fense is a year in prison and $500. fine.