Quinn v. State Commission on Judicial Conduct

OPINION OF THE COURT

The State Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined that petitioner, a Justice of the Supreme Court, should be removed for misconduct. The primary question is whether this sanction is appropriate for petitioner who is suffering from alcoholism and cancer and, as a result of his ill health, had submitted his resignation and applied for retirement prior to the commission’s recommended determination of removal. We agree that petitioner’s conduct cannot be condoned in a Judge and that he would be unfit to hold judicial office but have concluded that under the circumstances…