IN RE HARRIS

No. 98-O-0570.

713 So.2d 1138 (1998)

In re Judge Sharah HARRIS formerly known as Sharah Mulmore.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

July 8, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Robert Scheckman, New Orleans, for Applicant.

J.J. McKernan, Ernest L. Johnson, Baton Rouge, Sharah Harris Mulmore, Plaquemine, Gordon J. McKernan, Baton Rouge, for Respondent.

Nancy E. Rix, Hugh M. Collins, Ph.D., New Orleans, for Judiciary Commission.


KNOLL, Justice.*

This judicial disciplinary proceeding involves the conduct of a trial court judge who sentenced a felon to a term of imprisonment and later, after his parole, engaged in an extramarital affair with him. This intimate association with a convicted felon from her court became known in the community and was subsequently reported in a news article when it became an issue in the trial judge's divorce proceedings.

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