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: Law Blog - WSJ.comBar Urges Dress-Wearing Judge to Reconsider Resignation
By Dan Slater
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Should drunk-driving charges necessitate a judge’s removal from the bench? Suppose he’s wearing a dress when arrested. Should that matter?
Those are the weighty questions being flung around by the Boston bar these days after Robert Somma, a bankruptcy judge who was arrested while wearing a dress and was later charged with drunken driving, resigned from the federal judiciary. He then reportedly tried to unresign, according to the Boston Globe.
On February 13, Somma (pictured in mug read more
Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on May 21, 2008 (boomark / email).
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