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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Courts - Kentucky judge suspended for temper
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports today:
NEWPORT - Campbell County's only Family Court judge has been suspended for a month for losing his temper on the bench.Judge Michael "Mickey" Foellger was suspended for 30 days without pay beginning last Friday under a Judicial Conduct Commission order made public Tuesday.
"It's embarrassing," said Foellger, who waived formal disciplinary proceedings and agreed to the commission's findings. "I'm guilty. I've lost my temper. I've been inappropriately loud and all the things (the commission) says. My approach is loud and in your face. I have berated many persons, many more than I should." * * *
The order states that Foellger has a lack of patience with defendants, lawyers and court workers "by shouting and by using inappropriate, demeaning, sarcastic, insulting and abusive language." The outbursts were persistent and pervasive, the order states, but there was no indication of bias or prejudice shown in Foellger's rulings.
He has been on the bench for 15 years and is up for re-election in November. He is a former prosecutor and was president of the Northern Kentucky Bar Association in 1991.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 31, 2006 09:23 AM
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