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Panel: Punish Judge for Threat to Paper
Apr 2 2008, AP

A judge who wrote threatening letters to the publisher of the Boston Herald after he won a $2 million libel judgment against the newspaper should be publicly censured, suspended without pay for 30 days and fined $25,000, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct said Tuesday.

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U.S Election Assistance Commissioners Rosemary Rodriguez, left, Caroline Hunter, center, and Donetta Davidson, right, meet at the E.A.C. offices May 15, 2008 in Washington. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission is an independent, bipartisan commission...

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