Legal Opinion
Matter of Sheffield
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided December 21, 1984No. 83-593PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.]
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of the Judiciary finding that Judge Billy Joe Sheffield, Circuit Judge of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, violated Canons 2 A, 2 B, 3 A (6), and 3 C (1) of the Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
FACTS
On September 29, 1983, the following letter to the editor appeared in The Abbeville Herald:
"Dear Editor:
"As a concerned mother of three children in Henry County, Alabama,…
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