In Re Leon Jenkins

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he unique character and purpose of judicial disciplinary proceedings might incline us not to apply the exclusionary rule . . . .”
• the respondent was removed from office for accepting gifts from litigants appearing before him, soliciting and accepting bribes, communicating ex parte with litigants, soliciting perjury from an individual, and intentionally misrepresenting information on an insurance application
• the respondent was removed from office for accepting gifts from litigants appearing before him, soliciting and accepting bribes, commu nicating ex parte with litigants, soliciting perjury from an individual, and intentionally misrepresenting information on an insurance application
• “The purpose of [judicial disciplinary] proceedings is not to impose punishment on the respondent judge, or to exact any civil recovery, but to protect the people from corruption and abuse on the part of those who wield judicial power.”
• Supreme Court “makes an independent review of the record”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).