Matter of Goodfarb

*401OPINION

MARTONE, Justice.

This is a judicial disciplinary proceeding in which the respondent, Stanley Z. Goodfarb, Judge of the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County, asks us to modify the sanction recommended by the Commission on Judicial Conduct under Rule 11, Rules of Procedure for the Commission on Judicial Conduct.

I. BACKGROUND

Judge Goodfarb was charged with two counts of judicial misconduct. Count I alleged that in the case of State v. Joseph, 1 CA-CR 92-1379-PR, the Arizona Court of Appeals filed a memorandum decision in which it found that Judge Goodfarb had used the words…