# In Re Inquiry Concerning Judge Nowell

> Supreme Court of North Carolina · September 12, 1977 · 293 N.C. 235

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9582780

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re Inquiry Concerning Judge W. Milton Nowell
- **Court:** Supreme Court of North Carolina
- **Decided:** September 12, 1977
- **Citations:** 293 N.C. 235; 237 S.E.2d 246; 1977 N.C. LEXIS 893
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Lake
- **Judges:** Sharp, Lake
- **Cited by:** 139 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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”

## Opinion text

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).

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