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IN RE DISCIPLINARY PROC. AGAINST SANDERS

No. 200,271-4.

145 P.3d 1208 (2006)

In the Matter of the DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING AGAINST Richard B. SANDERS, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided October 26, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barrie Althoff, Mercer Island, WA, Katrina Campbell Pflaumer, Seattle, WA, J. Reiko Callner, Wash. Com'n on Judicial Conduct, Olympia, WA, for Petitioner.

Kurt M. Bulmer, John Avrom Strait, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.

Slade Gorton, Paul J. Lawrence, Matthew J. Segal, Shaakirrah R. Sanders, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, Seattle, WA, Amicus Curiae on behalf of Building Industry Association of Washington.

GROSSE, J.*

¶ 1 A visit by a judicial officer to a special facility for sexually violent predators is not in itself inappropriate conduct under the Code of Judicial Conduct. However, conversations with the residents of the facility concerning the reasons for their confinement, particularly when one or more of these residents has a matter or matters pending before the court on which the judge sits, can violate the Code of Judicial...

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