Starnes v. Judicial Retirement & Removal Commission

OPINION OF THE COURT.

District Judge H. Randall Starnes appeals from an Order of the Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission removing him from office for the reasons stated in the “Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Final Order” of the Commission.

*923Briefly stated, the Commission has found Judge Starnes guilty of “misconduct in office,” of “persistent failure to perform the duties of his office,” and “violating the Code of Judicial Conduct.”

The evidence, largely unrefuted, is that during much of his tenure, and more particularly during the last three years, Judge Starnes has been…