Comments on: Criminal Investigation of Judge Samuel Kent Goes Beyond Sexual Misconduct http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/22/criminal-investigation-of-judge-samuel-kent-goes-beyond-sexual-misconduct/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Mon, 28 May 2012 08:24:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Judicial Temperment « Overruled http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/22/criminal-investigation-of-judge-samuel-kent-goes-beyond-sexual-misconduct/#comment-38456 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:58:47 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/22/criminal-investigation-of-judge-samuel-kent-goes-beyond-sexual-misconduct/#comment-38456 [...] allegations against Judge Kent are really quite shocking.  Kent allegedly called a court employee into his office, where he “pushed up her shirt and [...]

]]> By: Disciplined Law Student Appears Before Disciplined Judge in Case Against Regent University « JONATHAN TURLEY http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/22/criminal-investigation-of-judge-samuel-kent-goes-beyond-sexual-misconduct/#comment-12783 Tue, 06 May 2008 12:55:40 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/22/criminal-investigation-of-judge-samuel-kent-goes-beyond-sexual-misconduct/#comment-12783 [...] Key insists that he merely posted a picture as a joke after Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Key changed a picture of Robertson to show an obscene gesture. Wen he was threatened with discipline by school officials, he took the picture down. He later added the picture to a condemnation of the school’s free speech and obscenity policies. Kent will now decide these initials question, despite his own precarious status, click here [...]

]]> By: Susan http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/22/criminal-investigation-of-judge-samuel-kent-goes-beyond-sexual-misconduct/#comment-6025 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:13:27 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/22/criminal-investigation-of-judge-samuel-kent-goes-beyond-sexual-misconduct/#comment-6025 It seems to me that judges, whether state or federal, only get investigated when the complaints formally reported against them are of a sexual nature. Do any of the so-called “judicial review commissions” investigate jurists when formal complaints of a different kind are made? Such as violations of judicial ethics? I have a strong feeling the answer is, probably not.

I find it very disturbing, to say the least, that some judges who are sworn to uphold the law seem to have no trouble bending and even breaking the law when it suits them to do so. Even more disturbing is the fact that some “review commissions” refuse to investigate matters of judicial misconduct even when formal complaints are made. Aren’t jurists expected to abide by the Canons of Judicial Ethics in all of their activities? Apparently not, or at least, they make up their own interpretations of the Canons to suit their own purposes.

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