Opinion ID: 2467000
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 45

Heading: JUDICIAL DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING UNDER MO. CONST. ART. V, Sec. 24

Text: Per Curiam: Respondent, The Honorable Alphonso H. Voorhees, is a Circuit Judge of the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit, and was the presiding judge during late 1985 and all of 1986. The Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline established by Art. V, Sec. 24, of the Missouri Constitution served a notice on him charging violation of this Court's Rule 2, Canon 3 B (1), (2), (3). After hearing, the Commission filed Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Recommendations. The Commission found violation only of Canon 3 B (3), reading as follows: A judge should report what he believes clearly to be professional misconduct of a judge or lawyer to the appropriate disciplinary agency. It recommended that Respondent be reprimanded for this perceived violation. The matter is now before us on the respondent's exceptions to the Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations of the Commission. We conclude that the record does not support the recommendation for discipline, and direct that the respondent stand fully discharged. Second, it being beyond the jurisdiction of the Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline to administer the courts of Missouri, I would enter the following order: