He was fined $1,000 and reprimanded in April 2014. Texans for Public Justice, an Austin-based group, later filed a criminal complaint with Travis County …
On Mother's Day, Florida Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis hopped on Facebook, and like millions of others, posted a message to mark the holiday that holds such a special place in the hearts of so many: ... "I would think it would be impossible to at least continue in his position without being reprimanded by his employer," Haynes told ...
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And Kenneth Post, a district court judge in Hudsonville, was given a 30-day suspension in 2013 after he jailed a defense attorney for advising his client not to answer incriminating questions. Professor Abramson calls it the "black robe disease.".
Dennis Wiley, a district court judge in Berrien County in southwest Michigan, was publicly censured in 2012 after he found a woman in contempt and threw her in jail for 10 days because she muttered a profanity in the clerk's office while trying to take care of traffic tickets.
On occasion, voters will hold judges accountable. After Inkster District Judge Sylvia James was removed from the bench in 2012 for misusing public funds , including money meant for crime victims, she ran for her old seat in the following November election.
Four judges have been removed from the bench and a fifth was forced to retire in the last three years. National experts who are watching the state's troubled judiciary say the trend is perhaps an aberration, but others say the state's judges need remedial education on judicial ethics.
Once a judge wins election, it can become a job for life. Judicial elections tend to be about name recognition and the special incumbent designation that sitting judges get on the ballot. And few practicing attorneys want to risk an election challenge against a judge whom they have to face in court regularly.
Attorney's Office in Detroit in 2013 that her fellow judges were being murdered to stop them from revealing wrongdoing and that she, too, was in imminent danger. People were hacking into her phone and e-mail. Supreme Court justices had evicted her from her home.
In Wisconsin, Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley claimed fellow Justice David Prosser put her "in a chokehold" during a heated argument in her chambers regarding the timing of an opinion. A special prosecutor was appointed but brought no charges.
HANOVER, Sean Regan – Disbarment by Consent on November 30, 2018, effective January 1, 2019, for committing a criminal act that that reflects adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness, and fitness as an attorney, and for engaging in activity that is prejudicial to the administration of justice. Respondent pleaded guilty to one count ...
McDANIEL, Brian Keith – Commission Reprimand on December 4, 2018, for depositing unearned fees directly into his business account, rather than his attorney trust account, without his client’s informed consent, confirmed in writing.
TOBIAS, Charles Lee – Disbarment by Consent on October 26, 2018, for committing a criminal act that that reflects adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as an attorney, engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, and engaging in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice.
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SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN CASE NO.: 2011AP2758-D COMPLETE TITLE: In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings Against Kenneth R. Kratz, Attorney at Law: Office of Lawyer Regulation, Complainant, v. Kenneth R. Kratz, Respondent.
Sullivan said lots of people are in a position to flag prosecutorial misconduct — the assistant prosecutors, defense attorneys, lower court judges and appeals court judges — basically anyone who is in the courtroom or reviews a case.
The Mississippi Supreme Court reversed Flowers' first and second convictions due to misbehavior by Evans, including arguing facts that weren't in evidence.
Kilgore described the bar's work as mostly policing lawyers' conduct outside of the courtroom, often involving bad business practices. In his 14 years as the bar's general counsel, he can't remember seeing any complaints filed in connection with a Batson violation.
A 2003 report by the Center for Public Integrity identified 2,012 cases across the United States since 1970 in which a judge reversed a conviction, reduced a sentence or dismissed charges at least in part because of prosecutorial misconduct.
In a 1935 ruling in Berger v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court broadly defined how a prosecutor should behave: "He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor — indeed, he should do so. But, while he may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones.
Bar complaints that don't result in discipline are kept confidential and destroyed after 18 months. Complaints that do result in more serious types of discipline — private reprimand, public reprimand, suspension or disbarment — are published only in Mississippi Lawyer, a small-circulation trade magazine with no website.
The Mississippi Bar doesn't separately track complaints filed against prosecutors , but the association's general counsel, Adam Kilgore, said none of the 516 complaints last year resulted in the disciplining of a prosecutor.