Brooks Blitch
As for Blitch, he sounds exactly like some of the arrogant pricks I've encountered wearing robes. Check out this description of his behavior, from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The ethics charges facing Judge Brooks E. Blitch III include collecting money from criminal defendants and using that money to make illegal payments to county employees, and ordering the early release of six imprisoned felons. . . .
Blitch is also accused of "improper decorum" and "inappropriate judicial temperament" during legal proceedings, and giving "preferential treatment" to the son of Life of the South Corp. founder Norman George Houston III, a personal friend of Blitch.
During a 2005 pretrial hearing in which Houston's son, "Bo" Houston, was facing felony charges including burglary, Blitch allegedly stated: "You know 'Bo' is my best friend's son. I'll tell you right now, I am not sending him to prison."
An investigation launched by the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) included employees in the county where Blitch served. In fact, this sounds very much like the kind of sleaze I suspect is present in Shelby County, Alabama, where I live. From the Fulton County Daily Report:
The JQC's action follows an investigation that began earlier this year when revelations surfaced at a Clinch County Commission meeting about a secret bank account. Commissioners were told that Blitch had issued a series of orders authorizing Clinch County court clerk Daniel V. Leccese Sr. to levy a $10 court fee on defendants in criminal cases and deposit the money in a secret bank account.
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