David Martin Bradfield

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  2005 Dubious Achievement Awards (Metro Times Detroit) - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/5/2006    Last Visited: 1/5/2006  

  Though it took seven months before the system decided to do something with one of its own, the executive boss of the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission recommends that 36th District Judge David Bradfield be disciplined for "civil and criminal assault and battery" during an argument with Detroit Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams over a parking space outside the courthouse.
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  In August, a visiting judge found that Bradfield had committed judicial misconduct and the case went to tenure commission executive director Paul Fischer for a recommendation.
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  In 1993, Bradfield was spanked with public censure when a security guard at Dearborn's Fairlane Town Center said the judge smacked him one during an argument about , a parking space.
  
  These boots where made for whompin'In an unsuccessful attempt to rob him, several attackers pull an Ypsilanti Township man's cowboy boots off his feet and use them to beat him about the face.He manages to get away, but not before, police say, suffering serious hurt.

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  9&10 News:  Commission Recommends Judge Suspension... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/29/2005    Last Visited: 12/29/2005  

  The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission also says Judge David Bradfield should undergo anger management counseling.Yesterday's recommendation could've been removal from office.Bradfield's lawyer plans file objections with the Supreme Court, which likely will hold a hearing to resolve the case.A retired judge investigated Bradfield.
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  Bradfield also got hostile with a parking attendant in 2002. (Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press.All Rights Reserved.)

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  Arizona Judicial Reform - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/29/2005    Last Visited: 12/15/2006  

  Detroit District Judge David Bradfield, who has a history of popping his cork in parking disputes, should be suspended for 1 year without pay and ordered to undergo intensive psychological treatment to control his temper, the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission recommended Wednesday.
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  Retired East Tawas District Judge J. Richard Ernst, who conducted a fact-finding hearing in August, concluded that Bradfield violated the state judicial code by cursing at and poking Detroit Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams in the chest on April 6 after Adams parked in a spot reserved for 36th District Court judges.
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  Bradfield also challenged Adams to a fight, Ernst said.
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  Bradfield was publicly reprimanded in 1995 for striking a security officer at Fairlane Town Center with his car in a parking dispute.In 2002, he was suspended for 30 days without pay and ordered to complete anger management counseling for yelling at a defendant and failing to follow proper procedures in two criminal cases.

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  Bad guy or good citizen? Judge is seen two ways at... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/25/2005    Last Visited: 8/25/2005  

  Two images of 36th District Judge David Bradfield emerged Wednesday during a court hearing in Detroit, where the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission is pressing its case to have Bradfield punished for behavior unbecoming a judge.
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  The testimony portrayed Bradfield, who has served since 1987, as either behaving as a hotheaded aggressor or acting as a jurist concerned for the safety of the court and everyone inside.
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  Adams agreed that Bradfield said this.
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  The earlier incident was in October 2002, when Bradfield allegedly became hostile after a parking attendant told him he would not be allowed to park in the new Gem Theatre garage across the street from the courthouse on Madison for a few more days.
  
  Bradfield said he did not recall the incident.
  
  Bradfield became angry, the attendant testified, when he attempted to explain the terms of the court's parking garage contract.
  
  He "took the document and flung it down ... swinging his car around and peeled the road.

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  Court suspends Detroit judge - 04/21/06 - The Detroit... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/21/2006    Last Visited: 4/21/2006  

  David Bradfield was subject of many complaints about his tantrums on the bench.
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  DETROIT -- Judge David Martin Bradfield is being indefinitely suspended from the Detroit district court bench and is ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation that could affect whether he should ever get his job back.
  
  The Michigan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Bradfield off the job after completing his work Friday.His suspension, following a hearing on the latest in a string of complaints about tantrums, is unpaid.
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  On April 6, 2005, Bradfield upbraided Adams for parking in front of the court.
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  Bradfield later acknowledged in a written apology that his conduct was "an embarrassment to myself and to the office that I hold."
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  Bradfield doesn't," Einhorn said.
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  According to the commission, Bradfield became irate at a parking attendant who told him there were no free spaces reserved for judges.
  
  Bradfield tossed a piece of paper to the ground and sped away from the garage, squealing his tires, the commission found.
  
  Bradfield, who was first elected to the bench in 1986, maintains the incident didn't happen.
  
  In 1995, he was publicly censured after he struck with a car a security guard at Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn after a dispute with a motorist about a parking space.

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  Crain's Detroit Business - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/20/2006    Last Visited: 4/28/2006  

  State Supreme Court suspends 36th District Judge David BradfieldThe Michigan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered 36th District Judge David Bradfield suspended without pay until a further order of the court.Crain's Detroit Business
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  State Supreme Court suspends 36th District Judge David Bradfield
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  The Michigan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered 36th District Judge David Bradfield suspended without pay until a further order of the court.
  
  Bradfield was found guilty of misconduct by the Judicial Tenure Commission last December for his confrontation with Detroit Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams over a parking space outside the courthouse in April 2005, and for a similar incident with a Gem Theatre parking attendant in 2002.
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  Bradfield appealed the commission's recommendation of a one-year suspension without pay and its recommendation that he be ordered to undergo anger-management treatment.
  
  The Supreme Court ruling said the commission had grounds for the suspension and also ordered the commission to direct an independent psychiatric examination of Bradfield to determine his fitness to return to the bench.

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  Crain's Detroit Business - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/26/2005    Last Visited: 9/27/2005  

  Judge found guilty of misconduct in dispute over parking spot; David Bradfield quarreled with deputy mayor over space
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  Detroit 36th District Judge David Bradfield has been found guilty of misconduct for his confrontation with Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams over a parking space outside of the court last April and a similar incident with a Gem Theatre parking attendant in 2002.
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  Bradfield has 28 days to respond to Ernst's findings, which then will be reviewed by the nine-member Tenure Commission.

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  DETROIT NEWS IN BRIEF: U-D high, academy enrollment... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/16/2001    Last Visited: 11/17/2001  

  A judicial misconduct hearing for Detroit 36th District Judge David Bradfield is set for Jan. 7 at 35th District Court in Plymouth, the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission said Thursday.
  
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  After the hearing, Kirwan will present a report to the nine-member Judicial Tenure Commission, which will decide whether to ask the Michigan Supreme Court to discipline Bradfield.
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  Bradfield, 54, a judge since 1987, is accused of verbally abusing and disregarding the legal rights of lawyers, criminal defendants and litigants and showing a bias against defendants in some cases.
  
  He has denied the charges, saying they were inspired by political opponents.

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  Detroit News Online | Wayne-County - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/29/2006    Last Visited: 4/29/2006  

  DETROIT -- Judge David Martin Bradfield is being indefinitely suspended from the Detroit district court bench and is ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation that could affect whether he should ever get his job back.04/21/06

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  Detroit; guide to organizing events - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/17/2005    Last Visited: 4/21/2006  

  A year after 36th District Court Judge David Bradfield's much-publicized confrontation with Detroit's deputy mayor over a parking spot, the Michigan Supreme Court suspended the judge indefinitely Thursday, ordering him to undergo a psychiatric exam to determine whether he's fit to remain on the bench.

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