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Teflon Robe: 4 Takeaways From Reuters' Latest Investigation of U.S. Judicial Misconduct
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of US News & World Report/Reuters
Posted: September 14th, 2020
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2020-07-14/tef...
An Arkansas judge who styled himself as a Sugar Daddy and was accused by local women of soliciting sex in exchange for cash, drugs and bail leniency largely escaped accountability from authorities for years, a Reuters investigation found. The judge was forced to resign from the bench in disgrace. But ... he continues to practice law despite his misconduct. As part of its Teflon Robe project, Reuters identified and reviewed 1,509 cases from the last dozen years 2008 through 2019 in which judges resigned, retired or were publicly disciplined following accusations of misconduct. In addition, the news agencys investigation identified 3,613 cases from 2008 through 2018 in which states disciplined judges privately withholding from the public details of their offenses, including the identities of the judges themselves. In many states, the lack of aggressive public oversight means that judges may behave with impunity. In the unlikely case that judges are publicly charged with misconduct, many states enable judges to simply resign or retire, putting a stop to the charges and any investigation of potential wrongdoing. Reuters found that at least 341 judges across the United States escaped punishment or further investigation in the past dozen years by resigning or retiring amid misconduct allegations. At least 5,206 people were directly affected by a judges misconduct. The victims ranged from people who were illegally jailed to those subjected to racist, sexist and other abusive comments from judges in ways that tainted the cases.
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