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WA: only 10 cases after only one p.d.-judge "intimate encounter"

By Skelly

From the ABA Journal:Banned Lawyer Gets Reprieve re Alleged Affair With JudgeThe ban has been lifted against a Washington state lawyer ordered not to appear on behalf of indigent defendants at his local courthouse, after a judge reportedly blabbed about their alleged affair... Michael Morgan, the presiding judge, ended the ban this week, apparently in response to a letter written by the attorney, Sean Cecil, to state bar authorities, reports KING 5...In the letter, Cecil says that he began socializing with the now-former Federal Way municipal judge, Colleen Hartl, only recently, and had one "intimate encounter," as the station puts it, appearing before her 10 times afterward. "That means presiding judge Michael Morgan only has to review those few cases, not hundreds, to make sure justice was carried out fairly," the station writes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).