Judge Sam Potter of Bowling Green, KY; drunken bully

The State of Kentucky presented Sam Childress Potter with a law license in 1989 after he graduated from Salmon P. Chase School of Law.

The Disciplinary Commission found Sammy guilty of the following misconduct.

• Boozed it up in court to extent it affected ability to perform judicial duties
• Appeared in court disheveled
• Engaged in erratic courtroom behavior
• Performed judicial
• Routinely made inappropriate to parties and attorneys in open court
• Repeatedly denied defendants their constitutional due process rights
• Engaged in prohibited ex parte (one-sided) communications with defense attorneys, prosecuting attorneys and criminal defendants appearing before him
• Neglected his judicial responsibilities
• Failed to be faithful to the law
• Failed to act with due diligence (slacker)

As a consequence of his misconduct, the apologists for Judicial Misfits sitting on the Kentucky Supreme Court punished Sammy by gifting him with a complimentary 30-day suspension from the bench.

As we speak (ca. February 2016), Sammy continues to sit as a Warren County District Court judge in Bowling Green, Kentucky.