- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, 1805: Chase was charged with eight articles of impeachment
==================
Whoa, let's not play too fast and loose with this. Chase was found not guilty on every one of the eight articles of impeachment b/c when push came to shove the members of the Senate realized that being a loud mouthed, irritating, opinionated S.O.B. was neither a high Crime nor a Misdemeanor.
AS for your other post regarding "fast and loose with the facts,"
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, 1805:
Chase was charged with eight articles of impeachment, arising out of conduct that allegedly occurred while he served as a District Court judge, in cases in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.
Article I alleged that he deprived a particular defendant of his constitutional rights and prejudiced the jury against him, subsequently sentencing him to death.
Articles II through VI involved the same case, in which Chase was accused of conduct that was prejudicial to the defendant, including empaneling a juror who had declared that he had made up his mind in advance of the trial; refusing to allow testimony from a material witness favorable to the defendant; interfering with the presentation of the case by the defendant's attorney; and procedural irregularities that amounted to unlawful arresting, imprisonment, and indictment of the defendant.
Article VII alleged that he improperly pressured a grand jury \"with intent to procure the prosecution\" of a particular defendant, and effectively ordered the district attorney to find a pretext upon which to prosecute him. Article VIII charged him with engaging in a \"political harangue\" with \"intent to excite the odium\" of a grand jury, for the purpose of turning the grand jury and the citizenry \"against the Government of the United States,\" and with behaving generally with the \"low purpose of an electioneering partisan.\"
While there appears to be consensus among scholars that Chase's impeachment was motivated by then-President Thomas Jefferson's hostility toward Chase and his Federalist views, they also seem to agree that Chase engaged in the sort of ill-mannered behavior described in the articles of impeachment.
Nonetheless (and perhaps because of an awareness that the proceeding originated out of partisan animus), the Senate ultimately narrowly acquitted him on all counts.
Note here the the House voted to send to the Senate 8 articles of Impeachment.
This is the definition of "Impeachment."
Then the Senate votes to acquit or not.
http://www.constitutionproject.org/ci/newsroom_guide/29.htm