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Oct 14, 1992 · Walter Nixon, a Federal District Judge, was convicted of a felony, making false statements to a grand jury. The House of Representatives voted three articles of impeachment; impeachment in the Senate followed.
Nov 4, 1989 · The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to remove Federal District Judge Walter L. Nixon Jr. from the bench by finding him guilty on two of three articles of impeachment.
Oct 14, 1992 · Nixon, a former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, was convicted by a jury of two counts of making false statements before a federal grand jury and sentenced to prison. See United States v. Nixon, 816 F.2d 1022 (CA5 1987). The grand jury investigation stemmed from reports that Nixon had ...
Walter L. Nixon, Jr., formerly the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, was impeached by the House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate for giving false testimony to a grand jury investigating allegations that he had been bribed.
Walter Louis Nixon, Jr. (b. 1928) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Nixon was nominated to the Southern District of Mississippi by President Lyndon Johnson on May 29, 1968, to a new seat created by 80 Stat. 75; he was confirmed by the Senate on June 6, 1968, and received commission ...
Dec 22, 2017 · Walter Nixon was a federal-court judge accused of corruption. Nixon was convicted and imprisoned for perjuring himself in front of a grand jury, but he refused to resign his judgeship. As a result, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached him.
Oct 19, 2019 · Walter Nixon, a federal judge, challenged the procedures the Senate used to impeach him for perjury before a grand jury.
