A prominent metro Detroit attorney is facing new claims of professional misconduct for allegedly mouthing off to a young female prosecutor and then, in a Facebook rant, misrepresenting what happened. Here is the story.
The Florida Bar obtained the emergency suspension of a lawyer who attacked opposing counsel on social media. You can read more about this story here and here.
A state appeals court ruled that a drug court defendant in Washington state is entitled to a new sentencing hearing because the judge who used expletives and said that the defendant was 'just a criminal,' showed “personal animosity.” Interestingly, the judge had already been admonished in the past because of similar behavior. He is no longer a drug court judge. Here is that story.
Finally, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered a lawyer to pay a $500 sanction for discussing irrelevant and banned evidence in her opening statement in a trial. Here is the story.
UPDATE 3/12/19: A judge in Texas, has received a public warning for telling jurors that God told him a sex trafficking defendant was innocent. See more here and here.
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