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Ind. Courts - Judge Grant W. Hawkins receives a suspension without pay for a period of 60 days
A 27-page, 3-2 decision with four opinions, issued late this afternoon, in the case of In the Matter of: the Hon. Grant W. Hawkins, Judge in the Marion Superior Court and the Hon. Nancy Broyles, Commissioner in the Marion Superior...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 11, 2009 05:52 PM
Ind. Courts - Still more on recommendation for Marion County Superior Court Judge Grant W. Hawkins removal
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star reports today:A Marion Superior Court judge whose court mishandled a ruling clearing a man of rape will be suspended after a state commission on Friday recommended his eventual removal from...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 22, 2008 01:10 PM
Ind. Courts - More on: Panel recommends Marion County Superior Court Judge Grant W. Hawkins removal
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Will Higgins has this report today in the Indianapolis Star. Some quotes:The panel said it would have recommended a suspension for Hawkins except that the judge was less than helpful during the Indiana Commission on Judicial...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 8, 2008 08:31 AM
Ind. Courts - Panel recommends Marion County Superior Court Judge Grant W. Hawkins removal
First, here is the 70-page "Master's Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Recommendations to the Supreme Court," in the matter of The Honorable Grant W. Hawkins, Judge of the Marion Superior Court. Start reading on p. 57 for the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 7, 2008 11:04 AM
Ind. Courts - More on: Marion County Judge Hawkins, Master Commissioner Broyles charged by Disciplinary Commission
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 8th, here is the 51-page package of documents, headed by the Supreme Court "Order Accepting Agreed Discipline," in the Master Commission Broyles matter. The Order provides that Nancy L.Broyles:is hereby PERMANENTLY BANNED from serving...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 10, 2008 03:10 PM
Ind. Courts - Still more on: Marion County Judge Hawkins, Master Commissioner Broyles charged by Disciplinary Commission
"Judge faces rare disciplinary hearing: Marion County judge and court commissioner accused of mishandling case of man cleared of rape" is the headline to an Indianapolis Star front-page story today by Jon Murray, updating this ILB entry from yesterday. Today's...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 8, 2008 08:26 AM
Ind. Courts - More on: Marion County Judge Hawkins, Master Commissioner Broyles charged by Disciplinary Commission
Updating this ILB entry from April 10th, the Indianapolis Star has a brief item today:A two-day hearing will conclude today in the disciplinary action against a Marion Superior Court judge over his court's delayed handling of an exonerated man's case....
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 7, 2008 08:59 AM
Ind. Courts - Still more on: Marion County Judge Hawkins, Master Commissioner Broyles charged by Disciplinary Commission
Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star has an expanded story this morning; access it here. Check here for background from the ILB....
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 11, 2008 10:27 AM
Ind. Courts - More on: Marion County Judge Hawkins, Master Commissioner Broyles charged by Disciplinary Commission
Updating the ILB entry earlier this afternoon, the Indianapolis Star has now made available online the "Notice of the institution of formal proceedings and statement of charges" filed by the Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications against Commissioner Nancy L. Broyles...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 10, 2008 03:28 PM
Ind. Courts - Marion County Judge Hawkins, Master Commissioner Broyles charged by Disciplinary Commission
Updating this ILB entry from Jan. 16th, quoting from a Jon Murray report in the Indianapolis Star about Harold David Buntin, who "served 13 years for a rape that DNA evidence proved he didn’t commit," including two year after a...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 10, 2008 01:49 PM
Ind. Courts - "Cleared of rape, Indy man sues over delay in prison release"
Jon Murray of the Indianapolis Star reports today:Harold David Buntin keeps his anger in check, but the worst kind of frustration persists after he served 13 years for a rape that DNA evidence proved he didn’t commit. He served two...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 16, 2008 08:01 AM