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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
99-O-1313 IN RE: JUDGE LARRY D. JEFFERSON MONROE CITY COURT STATE OF LOUISIANA ON RECOMMENDATION FOR DISCIPLINE FROM THE JUDICIARY COMMISSION OF LOUISIANA

KIMBALL, J.* This matter comes before the Court on the recommendation of the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana ("Commission") that Judge Larry Jefferson ("Judge Jefferson") of the City Court of Monroe, Parish of Ouachita, State of Louisiana, be removed from judicial office and be ordered to reimburse and pay to the Commission costs incurred in the investigation and prosecution of this case. After a thorough review of the record, we find that Judge Jefferson's conduct violated Canons 1, 2(A), 3(A)(1), (2), (3), 3(B)(1) of the Code of Judicial Conduct as well as the constitutional standard articulated in La. Const. art. V,

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