Legal Opinion
In Re Formal Inquiry Concerning Judge Bennett
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided November 26, 1984No. Misc. Judicial Disabilities No. 1, September Term, 1984PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
For the second time in Maryland history we shall be obliged to remove a judge from office. See In Re Diener and Broccolino, 268 Md. 659, 304 A.2d 587 (1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 989, 94 S.Ct. 1586, 39 L.Ed.2d 885 (1974), for the earlier such instance and the background for our current constitutional provision.
Acting pursuant to Md. Const, art. IV, § 4B and Maryland Rule 1227, the Commission on Judicial Disabilities formally notified Judge Stanley Y. Bennett of the District Court of Maryland, District II, sitting in Frederick County that he was charged with a number of…
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