2 Ex-Judges Censured for Unethical Conduct
Two retired Superior Court judges were censured Monday and barred from future judicial assignments because of unethical conduct on the bench.
The state Commission on Judicial Performance found that James R. Simpson of Los Angeles County improperly “presided over matters involving friends ... and tried to influence other judicial officers and police in their handling of matters concerning the judge’s friends.”
The commission found that Arthur S. Block of Riverside County “engaged in a pattern of inappropriate sexual conduct [and] attempted to intimidate potential witnesses during the investigation of the alleged sexual conduct.”
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