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Former Kansas Attorney General wants appellate judge ousted from his ethics case
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August 14, 2012
Florida: Five Supreme Court justices have already recused themselves from the ethics case of former Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline. Now Kline is seeking the removal of another judge from his case: Karen Arnold-Burger of the Court of Appeals.
Arnold-Burger is one of a panel of seven judges that will attempt to decide if Kline misled other officials in his effort to prosecute what he thought were illegal abortions. Kline filed a motion to remove Arnold-Burger from the disciplinary panel because of her role in, according to Kline's lawyer, Tom Condit, "publishing a factually inaccurate, if not dishonest, newsletter to judges throughout Kansas that further distorted and demeaned the professional conduct of Mr. Kline."[1]
The state Board for Discipline of Attorneys hopes to have Kline's law license suspended indefinitely. Kline says the complaints against him are politically motivated.
The justices and judges who have been assigned to the case include: Supreme Court justices Daniel Biles and Nancy Moritz, Court of Appeals judges Karen Arnold-Burger and Henry Green, and district court judges Edward Bouker, Bruce Gatterman and Michael J. Malone.[1]
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