By Avalon Zoppo | September 15, 2022
The committee interviewed Garza's law clerks, judicial assistants, courtroom deputies and others who worked with her over her 16 years on the bench and found "reason to believe that she had engaged in sanctionable misconduct."
By Brian Lee | September 7, 2022
According to the commission, a Town Justice who is a non-lawyer acknowledged that it was improper for him to have advocated for his wife in court as if he were an attorney, and to have disparaged a prospective tenant in a lawsuit.
By Colleen Murphy | September 7, 2022
Judge Mark D. Thompson of Colorado's 5th Judicial District Court has stipulated to a public censure and a 30-day suspension without pay in his agreement with the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline.
By Cheryl Miller | September 2, 2022
Judges who coach should watch for curveball facts that might lead someone to reasonably wonder if they can be impartial in a case involving an attorney whose child is a player on their team, the Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions wrote.
By Cedra Mayfield | September 2, 2022
Lead defense attorney Francys Johnson of Davis Bozeman Johnson Law in Statesboro intends to appeal his client's involuntary manslaughter conviction on grounds "there was no predicate 'unlawful act' other than a felony."
By Raychel Lean | September 1, 2022
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By Allison Dunn | September 1, 2022
The judge attributed the outbursts to personal and family stressors that diminished his ability to contain his frustration.
By Brian Lee | August 31, 2022
While the ethics investigation ends when Chief Judge Janet DiFiore leaves office, the court workers' union leader Dennis Quirk said resignation shouldn't "emancipate her" from inquiry.
By Cedra Mayfield | August 29, 2022
"The JQC appears to suggest that it has been unable to resolve this matter because it continues to learn of additional instances of misconduct by Judge Peterson," the Supreme Court of Georgia wrote. "But the JQC has not explained how its discovery of new allegations prevents it from proceeding to a hearing on the allegations already investigated, or what sort of investigation remains to be done as to those allegations."
By Brad Kutner | August 26, 2022
The married legal duo failed to keep clients of an unpaid wages dispute informed about negotiations as the case reached a settlement.
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