Board's Motion for Reconsideration denied June 8, 1982.ģ2. Order entered July 16, 1981: Complaint dismissed. (During criminal proceedings, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed confidentiality of the Board's records July 14, 1978. Despite such efforts, he was criminally charged and later acquitted of such charges.
At that location and based on apologies, assertions of professional embarrassment and indications of the likelihood of sanctions being imposed on him should criminal charges be filed against him for his misconduct, he sought to compromise the filing of such charges. Following these occurrences all relevant parties assembled at a police facility.
Having unsuccessfully sought to dissuade the officer from performing certain duties involving the issuance of traffic citations to two youths (one youth being his son), he became angry and thereafter verbally abused and physically assaulted the officer in the presence of such third party witnesses. The Complaint alleged that on September 5, 1977, in the presence of a group of third party witnesses, who knew that Respondent was a judicial officer, he sought to and did interfere with the performance and fulfillment of a police officer's duties and responsibilities. Alfano, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County Order of June 23, 1980: Complaint dismissed upon resignation from judicial office.īoard's Motion to Modify Order Re: Mootness, denied August 26, 1980.ģ1. By all of this conduct Respondent, demonstrated an incapacity and mental inability to perform his duties. mails and other means to cause unauthorized, sham and bogus subscriptions to periodicals, reports and other publications, to be sent to Judicial Inquiry Board members and counsel and a Courts Commission member who had taken action against him in 76 CC-3, and to the state's attorney who in 76 CC-3 had advised him against issuing haircut orders and who had refused to file a brief in support thereof sent anonymous letters to the attorney for the wife of this same state's attorney in a divorce action, suggesting ways to discover the state's attorney's assets and informing him of a newly enacted divorce law mailed an anonymous letter to a candidate for state's attorney, charging him with corruption and threatening to cause an investigation unless he withdrew his candidacy engaged in the practice of law on behalf of his father, an attorney mailed Will forms, admonishments on the selection of attorney, memoranda, news clips, press releases, sympathy cards, etc., to persons unknown to him and who were unreceptive to receipt of such items, using the County postage machine for franking had printed at public expense the sympathy cards and admonishments on the selection of attorneys made regular press releases on his activities, one of which concerned a minor he had sentenced and which matter by statute was confidential employed press releases, public commentary and "wooden nickels" to convey the impression of a "law and order" judge without regard to a reasonable standard of individualized punishment attempted to intervene with prosecutors on behalf of certain defendants and was not prompt in attending to judicial duties but fined and jailed attorneys who were late in matters before him, irrespective of the justification they offered. The Complaint alleged that Respondent used the U.S. Harrod, III, Circuit Judge, 11th Circuit, Woodford County 2d 486.)īoard's Motion to Reconsider denied May 27, 1982.ģ0. Order entered December 29, 1980: Complaint dismissed.īoard's Motion for Reconsideration denied February 13, 1981.īoard's Mandamus Petition to Illinois Supreme Court to direct Courts Commission to act, denied April 16, 1982. He further said the defendants had not filed jury demands which statement he knew was false when he made it. When they objected to signing because a printed statement on the form stated they were voluntarily waiving a jury, he induced their signatures under threat of a court order and then announced in open court that all present were witnesses that the signatures were voluntary. Respondent later told the Chief Judge that he had talked the defendants into signing the forms.
When they did not produce written jury instructions, Respondent ordered them to sign jury waiver forms.
The Complaint alleged that three pro se defendants filed written demands for jury trials. Nielsen, Associate Judge, 17th Circuit, Winnebago County