Opinion ID: 1854995
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 22

Heading: Rhonda Flower

Text: Flower, an attorney in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, called respondent sometime between 1991 and 1993 to inform him of a settlement agreement between parties in a civil matter docketed in his court. Flower recalled that the first thing respondent said to her on the telephone was, `Rhonda, just tell me one thing, at the end of this conversation, will I love you any more than I already do.' Although Flower was initially embarrassed and uncomfortable with this comment, she eventually considered the statement to be a joke. Respondent remembers making a comment similar to the one Flower recalls but asserts he assumed that the telephone call was concerning bad news or that she was going to ask for a continuance. The master concluded that the incident occurred as reported by Flower and that respondent's comments violated Canons 1, 2, 2(A), and 3(B)(4) of the Code of Judicial Conduct and § 24-722(6).