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Definition
Websters dictionary defines, misconduct as: 1. ...
Examples of Judicial Misconduct
1999, In Pomona, California a Superior Court judge resigned after it was learned he had coerced sexual favors from the wife of a criminal defendant. ... This is in retaliation for Putman’s involvement as a proponent of a State Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (JAIL) which Putman was trying to get placed on the ballot. This ballot would eliminate immunity form civil liability of state judges, magistrates, commissioners, arbitrators and judicial mediator in deliberate violations of the law.
The most tragic example of judicial misconduct is a case in Los Angeles where an alleged slush fund for the L. ...
Black Collar Crime
Misconduct amongst judges is one of the least known of crimes, most of the general public is not aware that it even exists. ...
Although lawyers and judges are in theory required to report misconduct, in reality they are prohibited from reporting it. ... Lawyers quickly learn that you don’t complain against a judge who is committing misconduct.
The media reports only on high profile cases where judicial misconduct is involved. ...
Judges are protected by Law
To improve the administration of justice in the federal courts, Congress passed the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980, codified at 28 U. ... The conduct to which the law is addressed does not include making wrong judicial decisions, for the law provides that a complaint may be dismissed if it is “directly related to the merits of a decision or procedural ruling.”
Created by Congress, the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal was supposed “to investigate and study the problems and issues” relating to judicial discipline and removal in the federal system and to evaluate more effective alternatives. In August 1993, it issued a report concluding that existing mechanisms were sufficient to deal with misconduct by federal judges. At a cost to taxpayers of nearly $1,000,000, the Commission passed out of existence, indefinitely setting back the cause of meaningful judicial reform. Commission’s researchers never interviewed anyone who had filed a judicial misconduct complaint with the federal judiciary under the 1980 Act or with Congress to initiate its impeachment procedures.
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