Arkansas Judicial Discipline & Disability Commission v. Simes

JIM HANNAH, Chief Justice.

| petitioner Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission (“the Commission”) has filed -with this court its final findings, conclusions, and recommendations, pursuant to Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission Rule 12(A) (2010), and recommends that this court remove respondent the Honorable L.T. Simes, II, from the office of Circuit Judge of the First Judicial District, First Division, of the State of Arkansas. The Commission bases its recommendation of removal on its conclusions that Judge Simes violated Canons 1, 2(A), and 3(B)(1), (2),…