In Re Gallagher

This judicial discipline case comes before the court on direct review of a recommendation of the Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability (Commission). Or Const, Art VII (Amended), § 8; ORS 1.430. The Commission concluded that Stephen L. Gallagher, Jr. (the accused), a judge of the Circuit Court for Multnomah County, had violated the Oregon Code of Judicial Conduct (Code) with respect to the first and second of the three charged causes of complaint, for which the Commission recommended that he be censured.

This court reviews the record de novo, ORS 1.430. We do so under a standard of…