A divided judicial discipline panel determined a Howard County judge committed sanctionable conduct in a 2015 relationship violence case and recommended she attend specialized training and be assigned a mentor judge.

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The Court of Appeals will decide whether to follow a recommendation that the longtime Baltimore judge be removed from the bench.

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An Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge is facing a disciplinary hearing after he allegedly chastised and badgered an attorney about a complaint against him that she filed.

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A Howard County District Court judge is facing disciplinary action stemming from her comments to two women appearing before her in relationship violence-related hearings. Both complaints against Judge Mary C. Reese were initiated by the Women’s Law Center of Maryland, ...

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The Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities has dismissed allegations of judicial ethics violations against Harford County Circuit Judge William O. Carr after the judge argued investigators denied him due process. The commission granted Carr’s motion to dismiss after investigators filed, ...

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A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge whose declaration of a mistrial in 2015 following repeated clashes with defense counsel led to the dismissal of first-degree murder charges now faces formal disciplinary proceedings by the Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities for ...

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Harford County Circuit Judge William O. Carr has habitually failed to rule on pending civil motions in a timely fashion, a violation of judicial ethics for which he has previously been reprimanded, investigators for the Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities have alleged.

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A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge received a public reprimand last week for yelling at an attorney in her courtroom and continuing to preside over his case despite acknowledging her inability to be impartial. Judge Pamela J. White was presiding ...

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A retired Harford County Circuit Court judge received a private reprimand last month for not requesting that a judge from a jurisdiction other than Harford County hear his traffic violation case. Judge Emory A. Plitt Jr., who served as on ...

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A private reprimand was issued to the chief judge of the Anne Arundel County Orphans’ Court earlier this month for receiving commissions as a real estate agent for properties that were part of estates overseen by the court. Nancy Phelps, ...

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