In re Boggia

This case involves a part-time municipal court judge whose law partner made political contributions from the firm’s joint business account. The Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct (ACJC) found that the conduct violated Canon 7 A(4) of the Code of Judicial Conduct as well as two court rules and recommended that the judge be publicly admonished.

*4Because the manner in which the contributions were made created an appearance that a judicial officer was involved in politics, we believe that the fine separating judges and politics was crossed. That issue raises concerns that can be found at law…