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Judge Reginald Badeaux, III of New Orleans; deadbeat, ethical gnome, Dufus  
Reginald Badeaux, III received his law license from the Louisiana Supreme Court in 1984after graduating from Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans.
Reginald Badeaux, III succeeded in duping the voters in the New Orleans area into electing him as judge on the 22nd Judicial District Court in 1997.
Reggie the Deadbeat
A couple of years ago, a financial institution threatened to auction Reggie’s home because he and his wife failed to make any mortgage payments for at least 16 months.
Reggie made no payments on a second mortgage on his home at Seventh Street in Covington between 2006 and 2007 according to court records. Now folks, do ya think that the mortgage holder would have allowed you to miss 16 months of payments without you being foreclosed on? Of course not!
Reggie’s glaring conflict of interest
In late 2011, the Louisiana Judicial Commission filed charges against Reggie for his misconduct involving a divorce case he presided over.
The divorce case of Mary and Cayman Sinclair was assigned to Reggie. Reggie and his ex-wife had celebrated birthdays and holidays with the Mary and Cayman and taken vacations with them.
Rather than recuse himself as the Code of Judicial Conduct mandated, Reggie presided over the case for t he next 16 months. During his tenure on the Sinclair case, Reggie vacationed with Cayman twice, and without even holding a hearing, signed a custody order that Cayman was able to use to keep Mary Sinclair from seeing her son.
When Reggie’s misconduct came before the Supreme Court, it ruled that his conduct was “clearly contrary to law,” which caused his illegal custody order to be vacated by another judge.
When Mary Sinclair came to realize that she was being shafted by Reggie and wasn’t about to get a fair shake, she filed a misconduct complaint against him. It was only then that Reggie removed himself from the case. Had Ms. Sinclair not filed the complaint, Reggie would have stayed on the case ad infinitum and continued to violate her constitutional due process rights.
As a consequence of Reggie’s unlawful conduct, the enablers for Judicial Misfits sitting on the Louisiana Supreme Court punished him by gifting him with a complimentary censure.
As we speak (ca. Jan 2012) Reggie the Loser remains sitting as a judge in New Orleans.
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