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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 --- 70 days ago http://forum.anothersite.co.uk/news-views/235158-judge-says-pennsylvania-ugly-st
| *Baltimore County judge suspended for profane, discourteous comments
Lamdin's conduct on the bench lacks 'dignity, courtesy and patience,' it says*
By Brent Jones | Sun reporter
9:28 PM EDT, May 13, 2008
The state's highest court suspended a Baltimore County judge Tuesday for making profane and uncivil comments from the bench, issuing the harshest punishment for a Maryland judge in more than two decades and, observers said, sending a message to judges to watch their behavior.
The Court of Appeals found that District Judge Bruce S. Lamdin violated the state's judicial code of conduct. It accepted a judicial commission's recommendation that the judge be suspended for 30 days without pay.
*Lamdin, 60, tossed profanities at defendants from the bench, joked that Circuit Court judges spend afternoons drinking rather than working and chastised a woman accused of prostitution by telling her, "Business must be good. If I released you, you'd be scratching that itch tonight."*
To a man accused of speeding on Interstate 83, he asked, *"What's the big rush to get back to Pennsylvania? It's an ugly state."* *When a woman left his courtroom with a crying baby he pointed out that confiscated cell phones are placed in plastic bags to be sent to Annapolis and added: "Maybe we ought to do the same thing with children except poke holes in the bag."
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His comments included disparaging remarks about drug treatment programs and the Baltimore Cit ... |
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