Judge reprimanded for racial slight
If you’re an attorney, being called a “Supreme” would only be a compliment if it was in reference to a seat on the Supreme Court. So, when it was used recently by a county judge in Hagerstown, MD to describe public defenders there, it was no compliment.
Recently, Washington County Circuit Judge W. Kennedy Boone was officially reprimanded for his incredible lack of professionalism and discretion when he referred to three black female public defenders as the “Supremes” and instructed the defendant in the case to get “an experienced male attorney.”
In a letter from the Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities, Boone’s actions were labeled as “undignified and disparaging.”. Though Boone has offered to recuse himself from their future cases, each of the attorneys in question has appeared before his court since the remarks were made last April.
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