“Choose Your Actions Wisely”

A circuit judge who initiated an electronic mail exchange over an IPAD received a letter of informal adjustment from the Arkansas Judicial Discipline & Disability Commission.

The recipient was “at one time married to an extended family member of [the judge].”

The message

This is Judge [name]. Lynn’s IPAD must be delivered to Kelly Underwood’s mailbox by 9:30 a [sic] or I will turn the matter over to Prose uting attorney.

Response

Really judge [name] turn it over for what. Looking at my son’s IPAD.

Rejoinder from the judge

Choose your actions wisely.

The judge admitted that she should not have used the title in the e-mail. There was “a long history of differences between [the recipient] and [the judge’s] family.” (Mike Frisch)