In re Inquiry Concerning a Judge, No. 257 Brown

ORDER OF CENSURE

The Judicial Standards Commission (Commission) notified Judge Craig B. Brown (respondent) on 2 January 2001 that it had ordered a preliminary investigation to determine whether formal proceedings under Commission Rule 9 should be instituted against him. The subject matter of the investigation included allegations that in the summer of 1998 respondent entered two orders ex parte dismissing the DWI charges against the defendant in State v. Ronald Taborn, *279Durham County file nos. 83 CR 24987 and 86 CR 41630, when respondent knew each of the two cases were before him only on a…