Edward Taylor Buckingham III is a former Attorney General of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
While working in the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) Criminal Division as the traffic prosecutor, AAG Buckingham was nominated by Governor Benigno Fitial to be CNMI AG on Wednesday, August 12, 2009.
[13] At the end of February, 2013, Governor Eloy Inos (who assumed governorship of the CNMI after Fitial's resignation on February 20, 2013) contacted Iowa governor Terry Branstad to seek his cooperation in apprehending, detaining and extraditing Buckingham, who was believed to be located in Johnson County, Iowa.
[15] On Friday, 31 January 2014, shortly before the scheduled trial date, two of the eleven counts were dismissed by CNMI Superior Court Associate Judge Kenneth Lewis Govendo.
[17] He resigned from and is no longer a member of the CNMI Bar Association,[18] and effective May 21, 2014 was suspended for eighteen months from the practice of law in Colorado.