Judges Gone Wild: Appalling Breaches of Judicial Ethics

• Ethics rules for Judges related to impartiality and candor.
• Cases from around the country of judicial impropriety and ethics lines being crossed.
• Nature of punishments for ethics transgressions.
• The case of:
        - The judge who searched a party’s home and seized property.
        - The judge who handcuffed the defendant’s teenage daughter in court.
        - The judges who made race comments.
        - The judge who had sex in his chambers with former interns and lawyers.
        - The judge who jailed a woman for a year for unpaid parking tickets.
        - The judge who jailed a spectator for dropping sunflower seeds in his court.
        - The judge who went on vacation with the prosecutor.
        - The judge and the bribes to find not guilty verdicts.
        - The three judges who can’t get into a strip club so end up in a brawl at White Castle…where two get shot…
        - The judge, the public defenders, and the hot tub…

Can you believe there have been judges who searched a party’s home and seized property, had sex in chambers with former interns and lawyers, jailed a woman for a year for unpaid parking tickets, went on vacation with the prosecutor after a guilty verdict and took bribes to render not guilty verdicts? In these cases, the truth is stranger than fiction and Peter Afrasiabi reviews these unbelievable cases while discussing how these judges flagrantly violated the canons of judicial ethics that govern the conduct of federal and state court judges in the United States. Rules covered include: Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Canons 1, 2A, 3 & 4; Federal Ethics in Government Act, 28 U.S.C. Section 455.

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