In Re Inquiry Concerning a Judge, No. 104 Stafford Governor Bullock

ORDER REJECTING CENSURE.

After reviewing the evidence adduced at the hearing before the Commission, this Court concludes that respondent’s conduct in question in these proceedings may be described as follows:

During the trial of a driving-while-intoxicated case on 24 June 1986, respondent, who was presiding, and the arresting officer, Jeffrey A. Karpovich, differed concerning the officer’s responsibility in connection with having a blood test administered to the defendant. Ultimately Karpovich, realizing, according to his testimony before the Commission, that “I was not getting anywhere, and to…