Legal Opinion
Concerning Justice Hill
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided March 16, 1988No. 88-112PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Per curiam
This case involves two petitions filed in this Court with respect to the testimony of former Assistant Judge Jane L. Wheel in the Judicial Conduct Board proceeding against Justice William. C. Hill. Some of the events leading up to these petitions are set forth in Hill v. Wheel, 149 Vt. 203, 542 A.2d 274 (1988) (per curiam). Following that opinion, Jane Wheel was convicted of false swearing in the Rutland District Court. She. has not yet been sentenced in that proceeding, and post-trial motions are pending.
Evidence is now being taken in the Judicial Conduct Board (the Board) case against…
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