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Judicial misconduct occurs when a judge acts in ways that are considered unethical or otherwise violate the judge's obligations of impartial conduct.. Actions that can be classified as judicial misconduct include: conduct prejudicial to the effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts (as an extreme example: "falsification of facts" at summary judgment); using the ...
In the first comprehensive accounting of judicial misconduct nationally, Reuters reviewed 1,509 cases from the last dozen years – 2008 through 2019 – in which judges resigned, retired or were ...
To track misconduct by state, county and local judges from all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, Reuters examined thousands of investigative files and reports for a dozen years – from ...
Texas and Louisiana: 1984, 1985 — [87] [88] Mike Nifong: North Carolina: 2007 — Prosecutorial misconduct while prosecuting the Duke lacrosse case. [89] Richard Nixon: New York: August 9, 1976 — Obstruction of justice related to Watergate. [90] Joseph C. Pelletier: Massachusetts: May 8, 1922 —
Samuel B. Kent (born June 22, 1949) [1] is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, whose term ended in resignation in 2009 following charges of sexual abuse.
Brown v. Texas, 443 U.S. 47 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court determined that the defendant's arrest in El Paso, Texas, for a refusal to identify himself, after being seen and questioned in a high crime area, was not based on a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing and thus violated the Fourth Amendment.
Judicial restraint; ... Such cases have come to comprise a substantial portion of the Supreme Court's docket. ... Adams v. Texas, 448 U.S. 38 (1980)
The Texas bar association is investigating whether Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.