Legal Opinion
In the Matter of the Inquiry Concerning Joseph SEVCIK, Judicial Magistrate, First Judicial District
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided April 8, 2016No. 15–2008PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CADY, Chief Justice.
The Iowa Commission on Judicial Qualifications filed an application for imposition of discipline against a .part-time judicial magistrate for misuse of expunged< files. The Commission.found the magistrate violated the Iowa Code of Judicial Conduct and recommended he be publicly reprimanded. We grant the application and agree on our review that the appropriate sanction for the magistrate’s conduct is a public reprimand.
I. Factual and Procedural Back-' ground.
Joseph Sevcik has served as a part-time magistrate in Black Hawk County for nearly ten years. He has also practiced…
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- Matter of HarnedSupreme Court of Iowa · 1984
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