holding that Judicial Standards Commission, whose findings can lead to censure or removal by state supreme court, must accord due process hearing to district court judge
How later courts described this case
- holding that Judicial Standards Commission, whose findings can lead to censure or removal by state supreme court, must accord due process hearing to district court judge
- holding that “fundamental fairness entitles [the officer] to a hearing which meets the basic requirements of due process”
- “wilful misconduct in office” and “conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute”
- " Wilful misconduct in office is the improper or wrongful use of the power of his office by a judge acting intentionally, or with gross unconcern for his conduct, and generally in bad faith ...."
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Justice LAKE
dissenting.
I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissenting opinion in In Re Crutchfield, 289 N.C. 597 , 223 S.E. 2d 822 (1975).