Hal P. Dekle

Hal Peb Dekle (November 21, 1917 – May 23, 2005) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida from January 5, 1971, to April 30, 1975.

[2] He became a trial judge in Miami, and ran for a seat on the Florida Supreme Court in 1968, but lost in the primaries to Vassar B.

[3] However, Dekle was then elected to in 1970, following the early retirement of Justice E. Harris Drew.

[3] In 1975, Dekle was investigated along with fellow justice David L. McCain regarding "allegations they had intervened in cases to help friends",[2] arising "when a clerk went public with details of a lawyer for a utility writing an opinion for the justices".

[4] Both justices resigned rather than face an impeachment investigation in the Florida House of Representatives.