The judge favored his court investigator and his personal accountant with court appointments to a guardianship matter pending in his court. The judge continued to preside over the probate matter du...
After learning that his nephew had been arrested, the judge went to the jail, rescinded the bond set by the magistrate, and ordered the release of his nephew from jail on a personal recognizance bo...
As a result of a personal relationship with an attorney involved in a case pending before his court, the judge used his position to advance the attorney’s private interests, allowed the attorney to...
After the defendant failed to answer a small claims action filed against him, the plaintiff requested a default judgment and asked for a hearing to determine his claim for unliquidated damages. Pr...
The judge abdicated official judicial duties by relinquishing control of the court’s criminal docket to the county attorney, whose office was unable to handle the volume of work due to staff shorta...
