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IN RE TURNEY

Judicial Disabilities No. 1, September Term, 1987.

311 Md. 246 (1987)

533 A.2d 916

IN RE FORMAL INQUIRY CONCERNING JUDGE JACK R. TURNEY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 8, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Albert Figinski, Baltimore, for Judge Jack R. Turney.

John H. Tisdale, Frederick, for the Com'n on Judicial Disabilities.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, JR., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), specially assigned.

McAULIFFE, Judge.

We here consider the report and recommendation of the Commission on Judicial Disabilities concerning Judge Jack R. Turney, a judge of the District Court of Maryland. The Commission found that Judge Turney is a capable, intelligent, fair, and highly respected jurist in Garrett County, but that his failure in a particular case to avoid the appearance of impropriety warrants censure. We agree.

Judge Turney erred in his handling of a case involving...

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