IN RE EMMET

SC 807.

300 So.2d 435 (1974)

In the Matter of Richard P. EMMET, a Judge.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied September 12, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steiner, Crum & Baker and M. R. Nachman, Jr., Smith, Bowman, Thagard, Crook & Culpepper, Montgomery, for Richard P. Emmet.

Jack Livingston, Scottsboro, for Judicial Inquiry Commission.


FAULKNER, Justice.

Richard P. Emmet, a Circuit Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, appeals from a decision of the Court of the Judiciary censuring him for misconduct in office.1

On December 17, 1973, Judge Emmet sent a letter to each of the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals which he termed "extraordinary and confidential." In the letter Judge Emmet outlined his reasons for...

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