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Case Summary for Complaint # 1113


Name: Stanley K. Bruhn

Title: Judge

Court: Skagit County Superior Court

County: Skagit

Discipline: Admonishment

Method of Resolution: Stipulation

Discipline Date: 08/07/1992

Canons Violated:1, 2(A), 3(A)(1), 3(A)(2), 3(A)(3), 3(A)(6), 3(B)(3)

Summary: Pursuant to a stipulation, the Commission publicly admonished a judge for tolerating inappropriate and disruptive demeanor and comments by defense counsel in a case, demonstrating a lack of patience and courtesy towards defense counsel when taxed by their behavior, and making inappropriate comments to one of the defense counsel when the attorney was in the courtroom during another case.

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