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Judge’s Ill-Fated Romance Violated Ethics Rules

The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline last month found that Nevada family court Judge Steven Jones violated legal ethics rules by failing to disqualify himself from cases argued by prosecutor Lisa Willardson, a woman with whom he was maintaining a romantic relationship. So reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Jones found Willardson dead in her bathroom just days after the commission issued its opinion. Investigators did not report any signs of foul play.

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