NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Judiciary Commission is considering how to discipline 15th Judicial District Court Judge Royale Colbert after a hearing Friday in which they questioned the sincerity of the Lafayette judge’s apologies for his behavior during a 2023 traffic stop.
Colbert was investigated by the commission, which oversees judges, because of the traffic stop and for holding an off-the-record Saturday meeting in his courtroom over whether a 2021 concert at The District club on Johnston Street could take place that evening after the city shut down the event because of a shooting at the venue a week earlier.
John Keeling, assistant special counsel with the state office that prosecutes judicial misconduct, said the facts of the accusations are not in dispute since Colbert admitted to them. The only thing to be determined is the discipline…