But in a strategic legal move this week, the 68-year-old politician pleaded no contest to a second Sunshine Law violation involving pre-public meeting talks with other commissioners on $6.2 million of land deals the county was negotiating last year.
Although the no-contest plea goes down as a second Sunshine Law conviction, the two convictions will be appealed together by Childers' lawyers to the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, FL.
Childers' lawyers will argue Florida's Sunshine Law doesn't specify if a commissioner's opinions on a public property issue are actually a violation, real estate lawyers intimate with the case tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity.
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