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IN RE TURCO

No. JD 13.

970 P.2d 731 (1999)

137 Wash.2d 227

In the MATTER OF the DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST Honorable Ralph G. TURCO, Tacoma Municipal Court Judge.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

January 28, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwards, Sieh, Smith & Goodfriend, Catherine W. Smith, Seattle, Counsel for Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Kurt Bulmer, Seattle, Counsel for Judge Turco.

TALMADGE, J.

We must determine in this case whether the extrajudicial conduct of Tacoma Municipal Court Judge Ralph G. Turco violated the Canons of Judicial Conduct, and the appropriate sanction, if any, for such violation. We hold Judge Turco violated Canons 1 and 2(A) by intentionally striking or pushing his wife in a public setting, causing her to fall to the ground. Although the Commission on Judicial Conduct recommended...

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