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(PA) Justice in Ethics Case Over Salacious Emails Wants Hearing
Source: Associated Press
Justice in Ethics Case Over Salacious Emails Wants Hearing
By MARK SCOLFORO, ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Mar 8, 2016, 3:36 PM ET
A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice facing possible removal from the bench over his role in trading salacious and objectionable emails asked a state judicial ethics court Tuesday to consider a deal that could resolve his case.
Lawyers for Justice Michael Eakin asked for a hearing by the full six-judge Court of Judicial Discipline on a proposed agreement reached with the lawyers prosecuting his case.
A three-judge panel of the court refused last month to even allow lawyers to lay out details of the proposal, which have not been made public.
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Eakin has been on the state's highest court since 2002. He is accused of acting in ways that brought disrepute upon the judicial system by sending or responding to emails that included photos of naked women, sexually suggestive themes, gender and socio-economic stereotypes, anti-gay content, and violence toward women. He also emailed a group of friends, including a deputy attorney general at his work email address, about plans to visit a strip club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The charges against him are part of a Pennsylvania government email scandal that has already led one fellow justice to abruptly retire and caused dozens of people within the state attorney general's office to be disciplined, quit or be fired.
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By MARK SCOLFORO, ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Mar 8, 2016, 3:36 PM ET
A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice facing possible removal from the bench over his role in trading salacious and objectionable emails asked a state judicial ethics court Tuesday to consider a deal that could resolve his case.
Lawyers for Justice Michael Eakin asked for a hearing by the full six-judge Court of Judicial Discipline on a proposed agreement reached with the lawyers prosecuting his case.
A three-judge panel of the court refused last month to even allow lawyers to lay out details of the proposal, which have not been made public.
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Eakin has been on the state's highest court since 2002. He is accused of acting in ways that brought disrepute upon the judicial system by sending or responding to emails that included photos of naked women, sexually suggestive themes, gender and socio-economic stereotypes, anti-gay content, and violence toward women. He also emailed a group of friends, including a deputy attorney general at his work email address, about plans to visit a strip club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The charges against him are part of a Pennsylvania government email scandal that has already led one fellow justice to abruptly retire and caused dozens of people within the state attorney general's office to be disciplined, quit or be fired.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/justice-ethics-case-salacious-emails-hearing-37496934