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A 10 page paper which examines the alarming precedent of cases involving judges and judicial misconduct, considering two recent cases involving such state judges as Maria I. Lopez in Massachusetts and D. Ronald Hyde of California. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of justice are judges, who are regarded as paragons of law and society because it is their duty to ensure legal propriety and integrity without compromise. However, with alarming
frequency, it is the men and women who are entrusted to uphold justice that are too often abusing it and being tried on charges of misconduct. An important precedent
in a case involving willful misconduct was the Matter of Yengo, 371 A.2d 41 (N.J. 1977), in which: "The New Jersey Supreme Court removed Judge Yengo for his repeated failure
to advise defendants of their constitutional rights, for imprisoning defendants either without a proper hearing or based upon inadmissible evidence, for using bail as an arbitrary weapon to harass defendants,
and for disregarding and mocking controlling legal precedent with which he disagreed" (In Re Curda, 2002). The states high court determined that Judge Yengo was improperly wielding his judicial
power "to imprison others than defendants" and that he seemed incapable of comprehending the all-important relationship between defendants and justice (In Re Curda, 2002). Unfortunately, the New Jersey case involving
Judge Yengo marked the beginning rather than the end of this disturbing trend of judicial misconduct. After a series of controversial decisions, Massachusetts Judge Maria I. Lopez was formally
charged with six counts of judicial misconduct in August of 2002 in order to establish "a pattern of bias, abuse, and indiscretion" (Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Matter of Judge
Maria I. Lopez, 2000). The most flagrant case of misconduct is alleged to have occurred in November of 1999, when a transgendered individual named Charles Horton was arrested and
indicted on charges of "kidnapping, assault with intent to rape a child under 16, indecent assault and batter on a child under 14, assault and battery, and assault and battery
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