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		<title>Cecil County Courts: Smigiel, Rollins, Others Apply for Vacant Court Seats; Lock Up Court Seal?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lock up the official seal of the state Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC): Mike Smigiel, three-time loser in recent political campaigns including a bid for a Circuit Court judgeship in which he misappropriated the AOC seal, is at it again. The former state Delegate has filed applications for a gubernatorial appointment to both Circuit Court and District Court vacant seats on the Cecil County bench. Also filing an application for appointment to the Circuit Court bench is current Cecil County State’s Attorney Ellis (E.D.E) Rollins, a Republican whose father and grandfather were also judges. It has long been known in local legal and political circles that Rollins wanted to follow in the family footsteps to a court seat, and that he was especially interested in seeking the seat that recently became available due to the retirement of Judge V. Michael Whelan. (Whelan officially retired last fall, but has continued to fill-in on the local bench as a “senior” or retired judge with a limited caseload.) Rollins was previously passed over for a governor’s appointment to two seats on the Circuit Court. Rollins drew controversy in his past county State’s Attorney political campaign for unilaterally appointing his son to a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Smigiel Launches Cecil County Judge Campaign with Legal Flub: Cribbing Official State Court Seal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cecil Times Special Report Delegate Michael Smigiel (R-36) has launched his long-anticipated campaign for a Cecil County Circuit Court judgeship with a major legal flub: a fundraising appeal that misappropriated the official seal of a state judicial agency. Documents obtained by The Cecil Times show that Smigiel pitched his candidacy—which had not yet been listed as officially filed in the state Board of Elections database as of Monday—with a plea for campaign donations under the official seal of the state Administrative Office of the Courts. After some recipients of his letter questioned the propriety of its content, Smigiel had to issue an apology both to the recipients and the state court office. The misappropriation of the state courts’ official seal by Smigiel is ironic, since he railed loudly and at length against the citizens’ group, “Friends of Charter,” which had used the Cecil County seal—which was not copyrighted at the time—on literature supporting adoption of a charter form of government on the 2010 ballot. Smigiel and his political compadre, Sen. E.J. Pipkin (R-36), strongly opposed a shift to charter government in the county but voters rejected their position and approved charter by an overwhelming margin. Smigiel’s botched launch to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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