In Re Seitz

INTRODUCTION

On April 12, 1991, this Court appointed retired Circuit Judge William R. Peterson as master to preside over the hearing of Formal Complaint No. 43, filed by the Judicial Tenure Commission *592against Honorable James McCauley Seitz, Monroe County Probate Court, Monroe, Michigan.1

The twenty-five paragraph complaint centered on the following general acts of alleged misconduct:2

1. Wilful neglect of adoption docket and refusal to respond to requests by the State Court Administrator’s Office (scao);

2. Abuse of contempt power;

3. Improper delegation of authority to release juveniles from…