Matter of Voorhees

BLACKMAR, Judge.

Respondent, The Honorable Alphonso H. Yoorhees, is a Circuit Judge of the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit, and was the presiding judge during late 1985 and all of 1986. The Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline established by Art. V, Sec. 24, of the Missouri Constitution served a notice on him charging violation of this Court’s Rule 2, Canon 3B(1), (2), (3). After hearing, the Commission1 filed Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Recommendations. The Commission found violation only of Canon 3B(3), reading as follows:

A judge should report what he believes clearly…