The Volunteer State

Credit: bloomsberries / photo on flickr

The Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct has reprimanded Judge J. Reese Holley for requiring defendants to perform community service or donate to charities he specified in order to receive representation from the public defender's office. Holley jailed at least one defendant for not performing the community service even though the charges against her were dropped. Holley will remain on the bench.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm guessing the "charities" were very appreciative to this judge and tangibly showed him their appreciation every time he got money sent their way.

[Almanian - TRUMP THIS]

"Try this one, weird trick to violate more Constitutional rights every day!"

[Rich]

Somehow, I didn't expect "Judge J. Reese Holley" to look like this.

[Radioactive]

Mr. Potato head with the beard option?

[ashdex]

Of course he will remain on the bench. Lawyers look out for their own.

[Suthenboy]

We had a judge removed from the bench in the seventh district. They got him on some silly technicality but the truth is he had been up to some pretty bad shenanigans for years. The other judge in that district got a real bug up her ass about him altering court records (reputedly) and went after him, but it took her years to get him removed. She was only successful because the LSC thought he was taking bribes.

That is what it takes to get a judge removed.