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In re Richland County Magistrate Stocker2/7/2005
uld participate in establishing, maintaining and enforcing high standards of conduct, and shall personally observe those standards so that the integrity and independence of the judiciary will be preserved); Canon 2 (judge shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all activities); Canon 2A (judge shall respect and comply with the law and shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary); Canon 2B ( judge shall not allow family, social, political or other relationships to influence the judge's judicial conduct or judgment); Canon 3 (judge shall perform the duties of judicial office impartially and diligently); Canon 3(A) (judge's judicial duties take precedence over all of judge's other activities); Canon 3B(2) (judge shall be faithful to the law and maintain professional competence in it); Canon 3(B)(7) (judge shall not initiate, permit, or consider ex parte communications); Canon 3B(8) (judge shall dispose of all judicial matters promptly, efficiently, and fairly); Canon 3(C)(2) (judge shall require staff to observe standard of fidelity and diligence that apply to judge); and Canon 3(E)(judge shall disqualify himself in a proceeding in which the judge's impartiality might be reasonably questioned). By violating the Code of Judicial Conduct, respondent has also violated Rule 7(a)(1)( it shall be ground for discipline for judge to violate Code of Judicial Conduct) and 7(a)(6) (it shall be ground for discipline for judge to consistently fail to timely issue orders, decrees, opinions or otherwise perform official duties without just cause or excuse) of the Rules for Judicial Disciplinary Enforcement, Rule 502, SCACR.
CONCLUSION
We find respondent's misconduct as set forth in Agreement #1 warrants a public reprimand. We find respondent's misconduct as set forth in Agreement #2 warrants a thirty (30) day suspension from judicial duties. We therefore accept the two Agreements for Discipline by Consent and hereby publicly reprimand respondent and suspend him from his judicial duties for thirty (30) days.
PUBLIC REPRIMAND; SUSPENSION.
TOAL, C.J., MOORE, WALLER, BURNETT and PLEICONES, JJ., concur.
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