Guideline E: Personal Conduct
Questionable judgment, dishonesty, or rule-breaking, including falsifying or omitting information on the security forms.
8,161
decided hearing cases
23%
granted
The specific issues, and how they fared
Falsified the security form
10% granted · 2,956Personal conduct — unspecified
27% granted · 2,731Omission / failure to disclose
27% granted · 2,590Lack of candor in an interview
11% granted · 1,501Questionable judgment
25% granted · 1,361Workplace rules violation
21% granted · 704Mitigations judges credited most
Promptly corrected the falsification
85
Acknowledgment & remorse
71
Credible explanation of omission
43
Passage of time
20
Rehabilitation evidence
7
Counted only where the judge expressly credited the mitigation, not merely where it was claimed.
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Descriptive statistics from decided public DOHA cases. Not legal advice or a prediction. † marks samples under 20 cases.