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Beth Lewis Maze, Circuit Judge v. Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Kentucky, No. 2018-SC-000633-RR · judgment June 13, 2019


Certiorari denied · November 12, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Petitioner, a Kentucky Circuit Judge, has been charged by the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission in a civil proceeding that could result in removal from her elected judicial office. Petitioner also has been charged in a state criminal indictment for the same underlying conduct. Petitioner sought and was denied a stay of the administrative proceedings in order to protect her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent in the criminal case. Did the denial of the stay in the civil proceedings deprive Petitioner of her fundamental Fifth Amendment right to remain silent in the state criminal proceedings? (i)

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Edward E. Dove

For respondent
Jeffrey C. Mando
Adams Law, PLLC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
19A277

Proceedings

  1. Nov 12 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 23 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.
  3. Oct 04 2019
    Brief of respondent Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission in opposition filed.
  4. Sep 11 2019
    Response of Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission to motion not accepted for filing. (September 17, 2019)
  5. Sep 11 2019
    Application (19A277) denied by Justice Sotomayor.
  6. Sep 04 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 7, 2019)
  7. Sep 04 2019
    Application (19A277) for a stay pending the disposition of the petition for a writ of certiorari, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.