Case Title: IN THE MATTER OF THE COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT AND ETHICS' FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE HONORABLE TONY S. LOPEZ, MUNICIPAL JUDGE, SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, ALBANY COUNTY, LARAMIE, WYOMING

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Docket Number: J-12-0001

State: wyoming

Court: Wyoming Supreme Court

Date: 2012-03-23T00:00:00Z

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IN THE MATTER OF THE COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT AND ETHICS' FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE HONORABLE TONY S. LOPEZ, MUNICIPAL JUDGE, SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, ALBANY COUNTY, LARAMIE, WYOMING2012 WY 44Case Number: J-12-0001Decided: 03/23/2012This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in Pacific Reporter Third.  Readers are requested to notify the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Supreme Court Building, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002, of any typographical or other formal errors so that correction may be made before final publication in the permanent volume.  
October 
Term, A.D. 2011
 
IN 
THE MATTER OF THE COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT AND ETHICS' FINDINGS AND 
RECOMMENDATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE HONORABLE TONY S. LOPEZ, MUNICIPAL JUDGE, 
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, ALBANY COUNTY, LARAMIE, WYOMING
 


  
  
    
       
ORDER OF PUBLIC CENSURE
 
[¶1]      This 
matter came before 
the Court upon the “Commission’s Findings and Recommendation,” filed herein 
March 2, 2012, by the Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics of the State of 
Wyoming, pursuant to Rule 26 of the Rules Governing the Commission on Judicial 
Conduct and Ethics.  In its 
Recommendation, the Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics recommends that 
the Honorable Tony S. Lopez, Laramie Municipal Court Judge, be publicly censured 
for his conduct.  Attached to the 
Commission’s Findings and Recommendation is an Affidavit of Consent, wherein 
Judge Lopez “agree[s] to accept the final decision by the Wyoming Supreme 
Court.”  Now, after a careful review 
of the “Commission’s Findings and Recommendations,” the materials attached 
thereto, and the file, finds that the “Commission’s Findings and Recommendation” 
should be approved, confirmed and adopted by the Court; and that the Honorable 
Tony S. Lopez, Laramie Municipal Court Judge, should be publicly censured for 
the conduct described in the “Commission’s Findings and Recommendation.”  It is, therefore,
 
[¶2]      ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the 
Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics’ “Commission’s Findings and 
Recommendation,” a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein 
(without attachments), shall be, and the same hereby is, approved, confirmed, 
and adopted by this Court; and it is further
 
[¶3]      ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Honorable 
Tony S. Lopez, Laramie Municipal Court Judge, shall receive a public censure for 
his conduct detailed in the “Commission’s Findings and Recommendation;” and it 
is further 
 
[¶4]      ORDERED that the Honorable Tony S. 
Lopez, Laramie Municipal Court Judge, is hereby assessed Disciplinary Counsel’s 
costs and fees in the amount of $1,400.00, payable in equal monthly installments 
to the Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics, with final payment to be made 
on or before March 1, 2013; and it is further
 
[¶5]      ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court 
shall docket this Order of Public Censure, along with the incorporated 
“Commission’s Findings and Recommendation,” as a matter coming regularly before 
this Court as a public record; and it is further
 
[¶6]      ORDERED that this Order of Public 
Censure, along with the incorporated “Commission’s Findings and Recommendation,” 
shall be published in the Wyoming Reporter and the Pacific Reporter; and it is 
further
 
[¶7]      
ORDERED that 
the Clerk of this Court cause a copy of the Order of Public Censure to be served 
upon the Honorable Tony S. Lopez, Laramie Municipal Court Judge; and it is 
further
 
[¶8]      
ORDERED 
that the Clerk of this Court transmit a copy of this Order of Public Censure to 
members of the Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics of the State of 
Wyoming.
 
[¶9]      
DATED this 
23rd day of March, 2012.
 
                                                                        

BY THE COURT:
                                                            
     
             /s/ 
MARILYN S. 
KITE
                                                                        
Chief Justice