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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE # 12 FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA The Opinion handed down on the 4th day of February, 2004, is as follows: BY CALOGERO, C.J.: 2003-O -2801 IN RE: JUDGE JOEL G. DAVIS Accordingly, for the reasons stated herein, it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the respondent, Judge Joel G. Davis of the 33rd Judicial District Court, Parish of Allen, State of Louisiana, be, and is hereby, suspended from office for a period of ninety (90) days to commence upon finality of this judgment. We further cast respondent with costs of $1,532.77 incurred in the investigation and prosecution of this case. JOHNSON, J., dissents and assigns reasons.

2/4/04 SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA No. 03-O-2801 IN RE: JUDGE JOEL G. DAVIS ON RECOMMENDATION FOR DISCIPLINE FROM THE JUDICIARY COMMISSION OF LOUISIANA CALOGERO, Chief Justice. This matter comes before the court on the recommendation of the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana that respondent, Joel G. Davis, judge of the 33rd Judicial District Court, Parish of Allen, be suspended from office for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days and further ordered to reimburse the Commission costs incurred in the investigation and prosecution of this judicial discipline case.1 The recommended discipline arises out of Formal Charge No. 0190 filed by the Commission following an investigation that found improprieties in Judge Davis's appointing his father to represent indigent defendants before him and thereafter recusing himself, as well as in his actions in some of those cases post appointment. The Commission charged Judge Davis with violating La. Code Crim. Pro. art. 671A(2) and Canons 1, 2A, 2B, 3B(4) and 3(C) of the Code of Judicial Conduct (1996). The Commission also charged Judge Davis with engaging in willful misconduct relating to his official duty, for willful and persistent failure to perform his duty, and for persistent and public conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brought the judicial office into disrepute, all in violation of La. Const. Art. V,

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