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Advisory board favors streamlining discipline when one act triggers multiple ethics subsections
Summary
The advisory board discussed whether investigators should 'stack' multiple similar violations arising from a single act and signaled preference for treating closely related subsections as a single rule violation while preserving avenues to address distinct misconduct.
The JVCC advisory board on Oct. 10 discussed how investigators and the board should treat instances where a single act may fall under multiple similar ethics subsections.
Melinda Saucedo, the JVCC compliance manager and investigator, said staff frequently encounter conduct that could be cited under several adjacent subsections — for example, parts of a code of ethics rule addressing professional behavior in court — and asked whether the board prefers listing each subsection or treating the conduct as a single rule violation.
"There are sometimes that we have violations that will fall under extremely similar,…
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