Hinton v. Judicial Retirement & Removal Commission

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a final order of the Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission finding Mason Circuit Judge Richard L. Hinton guilty of violating SCR 4.300, Canon 3 A(3) of the Code of Judicial Responsibility. The Commission ordered a public censure.

The question presented is whether the record supports the finding that the judge acted in an undignified, discourteous or impatient manner toward Lexington attorney Jerry Anderson.

Judge Hinton was presiding over the murder trial of Patrick S. Huron in 1991. The homicide arose from a fight and a shooting at a Mason County…