Reprimand Recommended for Lawyer Who Sent Note to Judge Advising Him to Convict
A Missouri disciplinary panel is recommending a reprimand for a St. Louis-area prosecutor who admitted passing a note to a judge hearing a case in another courtroom.
The lawyer, Keith K. Cheung, admitted he asked a bailiff to hand-deliver the note to a judge hearing a case against a police chief accused of employing an unqualified officer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The note read: “Judge, you need to convict this guy. I’ll explain later. Keith Cheung.”
The judge declared a mistrial after receiving the note last June.
Cheung is a prosecutor in the Missouri communities of Town and Country, St. Ann and Frontenac, and a municipal judge in Ladue, the story says. Cheung had self-reported the misconduct and accepts the recommendation, which now goes to the Missouri Supreme Court, the story says.
