No. 19-300

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

Lower Court: Kentucky
Docketed: 2019-09-05
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: administrative-hearing civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-conduct self-incrimination stay
Key Terms:
ERISA FifthAmendment DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-11-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

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?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

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)

Docket Entries

2019-11-12
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.
2019-10-04
Brief of respondent Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission in opposition filed.
2019-09-11
Application (19A277) denied by Justice Sotomayor.
2019-09-05
Motion for Stay Pending Review of Beth Lewis Maze submitted.
2019-09-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 7, 2019)
2019-09-04
Application (19A277) for a stay pending the disposition of the petition for a writ of certiorari, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Beth Lewis Maze
Edward E. Dove — Petitioner
Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission
Jeffrey C. MandoAdams Stepner Woltermann & Dusing, Respondent