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Article: STATE HIGH COURT JUDGE STRIKES BACK AT CRITICISM.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 27, 1996
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Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders yesterday flatly rejected a citizen commission's complaint that his speech to an anti-abortion rally was improper.
The judge hit back with some criticism of his own, accusing the 11-member Commission on Judicial Conduct of an ``entirely secretive and one-sided process utilized by the commission in investigating, charging and prosecuting Justice Sanders.''
In a statement written by Sanders' attorney, Paul Lawrence of the American Civil Liberties Union, the commission was accused of violating the justice's state and federal constitutional protections.
The panel, acting on a complaint by state Sen. Lorraine ...