IN THE MATTER OF MORRISSEY


366 Mass. 11 (1974)

313 N.E.2d 878

IN THE MATTER OF FRANCIS X. MORRISSEY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 12, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Barshak & David A. Barry, Designated Counsel.

Walter J. Hurley for the respondent Morrissey.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


BY THE COURT.

Francis X. Morrissey has been a judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston since 1958. On May 17, 1973, there appeared in a Boston newspaper a news article containing allegations of possible improper conduct by Judge Morrissey. Those allegations arose principally from the fact that Judge Morrissey, in September of 1967, received and deposited to his account a check in the amount of $4,000 drawn by the...

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