Monday, September 28, 2015

Troubling trend: When Michigan judges need disciplining

They lied, stole, forged bank documents, padded expense accounts, drove drunk, slept with litigants and jailed innocent people.
Michigan judges have been in big trouble in recent years. The number of judges disciplined — about 35 per year — has not gone up, but the level of chicanery has soared.
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.
READ MORE:http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2014/12/07/misbehaving-michigan-judges-disciplined-judicial-tenure-commission/20020833/

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