All posts tagged "judicial misconduct"
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13Ken PaxtonTexas Judge George Barnstone Resigns Rather Than Face Any Discipline
According to the resignation agreement, George Barnstone was named in six complaints with at least seven allegations of misconduct.
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56JudgesJudge Accused of Sexual Misconduct Resigns to Obtain Taxpayers Pension and No Jail Time. Harvey Weinstein is Enraged.
Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of felonies in February 2020 and was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Not so, when you're...
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45JudgesA Gun, A Bedroom Wall, A Lyin’ Judge and Several Sexual Harassment Complaints
Judge Patrick O’Shea’s case is the 96th accusation of judicial misconduct to result in a Courts Commission hearing.
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56Fake DocumentsHere’s a Perfect Example of Why Judges Personal and Financial Information Has to Be Publicly Available
Former Judge Jessica O'Brien is married to a Judge and was on $195,000 year salary but that did not stop her greed...
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168Appellate JudgesJudge Edith Jones Avers Judge Lynn Hughes Did Not Ridicule the Complainants or Their Claims in Any Way.
LIT has seen Judge Lynn Hughes reversed twice at the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in early 2021 and also...
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119Appellate JudgesSenior Slap Down: Judge Lynn Hughes Bias Demands Reassignment Says Sr. Judge Grady Jolly
Because the sentencing judge seems immovable from his views of the sentence he imposed, and because the judge displayed bias against the...
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160Appellate JudgesPrice Doesn’t Meet the High Standards Needed for a Pro Se Coming Before the Court, Sayeth the Fifth Circuit
What’s interesting here is Stanley Price complained about lower court Judge Vance, who was succeeded, albeit temporarily, by Judge Engelhardt who sat...
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157Appellate JudgesAny High Profile Complaints About Federal Judges Results in Resignation or Retirement. That’s Not Justice, it’s An Expensive Coverup.
Justice was not served. We sent the wrong message to victims of domestic violence by allowing a federal judge to collect a...
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207JudgesFlorida Judge Deborah Ford-Kraus Removed from the Bench for Dishonesty and Fraud
The JQC determined that Ford-Kaus’s conduct demonstrated a present unfitness to hold judicial office. Accordingly, the JQC recommended that Ford-Kaus be removed...
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148JudgesOrdering Baseball Tickets Earns this Florida Circuit Judge an Early Retirement and the Donor, a Lawyer, is Suspended
Circuit Judge John Lakin retires in the midst of an investigation that he took baseball tickets from a law firm with a...
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183JudgesJudge Gary Graham Removed from the Bench by the Florida Supreme Court
A judge who refuses to recognize his own transgressions does not deserve the authority or command the respect necessary to judge the...
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193Appellate JudgesFederal Courts: Judicial Misconduct, Judicial Committee, Subpoenas and Judicial Privilege
If you’re looking for educational material on impeachment, court and judicial committee proceedings, LIT aims to provide the most comprehensive article database...
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224Deutsche BankRetired Judge Maryanne Trump Barry’s Immunity from Any Alleged Prosecution.
Upon her retirement in 2019, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry acquired immunity from any illegal activities in which she is alleged to have...
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252Appellate CircuitD.C. Dismissed One Hundred Percent – 478 Judicial Complaints – over an 11 Year Period
In the 11-year period that ended Nov. 30, 2017, the District of Columbia Circuit had received 478 complaints of judicial misconduct, 100%...
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201Editors ChoiceIt’s Another Corrupt Judicial WhiteOut. This time In New Hampshire and Where the AG is On Both Sides.
Nashua Circuit Court Judge Julie Introcaso faces criminal charges of falsifying physical evidence, tampering with public records and an unsworn falsification.
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371Laws In Texas25 Texas Lawyers and Judges Sanctioned in SuperBowl February 2021
There's 15 Publicly Texas Lawyers & Judges Disciplined on Feb 2021 SuperBowl List and then there's the 10 Texas Attorney's that You'll...
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236Appellate JudgesJudge Not Protected by Immunity Defense When It’s a Perversion of Justice
A Superior Judge who was charged with examining Judge DiLeo’s conduct overturned the defendant’s conviction and used the term, perversion of justice...
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332JudgesDawn Gentry Has Her Black Robe Removed by Order of the Judicial Committee and the Kentucky Supreme Court Affirms
Gentry’s 12 misconduct charges accuse her of using sex, coercion and retaliation as tools in her judgeship. She was suspended with pay...
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