Public Decisions Database
This database contains decisions on all public judicial disciplinary cases since the inception of the commission in 1960. Cases not involving public charges or public discipline remain confidential under the California Constitution and the commission’s rules.
Pursuant to amendments to the Constitution, which took effect in March 1995, the commission is authorized to impose all disciplinary sanctions, subject to discretionary review by the Supreme Court. Prior to that, the Supreme Court had the authority to censure or remove judges from office upon recommendation by the commission.
Case Profile
New Search| First Name | David E. |
| Last Name | Wasilenko |
| Title | Judge |
| Inquiry No. | 170 |
| Court Level | Superior Court |
| County/Appellate District | Yuba |
| Discipline/Determination | Censure and bar |
| Decision By | Commission |
| Date of Decision | 03/02/2005 |
| Method of Resolution | Decision |
| Types of Misconduct | Gifts/loans/favors/ticket-fixing |
| Petition For Review | |
| Summary | Judge Wasilenko engaged in a pattern of misconduct by diverting to himself certain cases, both traffic matters and misdemeanors, that were not pending before him and that otherwise would not have been assigned to him and affording favored procedural handling of their cases to defendants who were relatives, friends, and friends-of-friends. In some instances, the judge also afforded the defendants substantively lenient dispositions of their traffic cases and related offenses. The judge had previously received a private admonishment for similar conduct. At the time of the commission's decision, the judge had retired from office. |
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