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Case Summary for Complaint # 1474


Name: Ralph L. Perkins

Title: Commissioner

Court: Pend Oreille District Court

County: Pend Oreille

Discipline: Resignation

Method of Resolution: Supreme Court affirmed

Discipline Date: 10/21/1993

Canons Violated:1, 2(A)

Summary: In a stipulation and agreement between the Commission and a judge who had twice intentionally struck and caused bodily harm to his then-spouse and entered a plea of guilty to two counts of assault, the judge agreed and stipulated to resign and terminate his judicial duties no later than December 1, 1993. He also agreed not to seek or serve in any judicial office in Washington unless the Supreme Court granted a petition for reinstatement of eligibility. The State Supreme Court affirmed the stipulation.

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