Disciplinary Counsel v. Elum

{¶ 1} Respondent, Judge Edward Joseph Elum, of Massillon, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0010772, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1977. He has served as a Massillon Municipal Court judge since 1996. In October 2012, we found that he violated the Code of Judicial Conduct and the Rules of Professional Conduct for, among other things, unnecessarily injecting himself into an internal police-department investigation, using vulgar and intemperate language toward a probationer in his courtroom, and conducting that individual’s probation review without the presence of his counsel or…