Arkansas Judge Resigns After Thousands of Nude Photos of Defendants Found

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The judge would often give defendants his hand-written phone number and have them serve what he described as "community service" at his home.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arkansas-judge-resigns-after1000s-photos-nude-male-defendants-found-his-n570896

[TexasProgresive]

1. Family values???

[Sanity Claws]

2. You can't make this shit up

If you were writing a novel about judicial corruption, would you include this? No, unless you were writing a farce.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

3. Power corrupts; absolute power ...

Double jeopardy likely will prevent reprosecution of those who appear in His Honor's photo collection. But what about the judge himself? Will he get even a slap on the wrist?

[Eleanors38]

5. "Will he even get a slap on the wrist?" Nah, he wants a slap on the ass.

[cloudbase]

19. He'll get a nice pension check every month. n/t

[JunkYardDogg]

4. Court's background musak was the Banjo Song from Deliverance

Geez,
That should have been the first clue

[malaise]

6. This went on for 30 years

Others knew

[lindysalsagal]

7. Said on MSNBC this am: loads of nude photos of defendants.

Beyond comprehension how this was allowed to go on for so long.

[LiberalArkie]

8. Good old conservative Democratic Arkansas politician.

[Enthusiast]

12. I have an idea. How about we mainstream those good old conservative Democratic Arkansas values.

Oh, wait.

[LiberalArkie]

13. If they can just be arrested and convicted, I think most of the problem will take care of itself.

In the elections now, the judicial positions are "non-partisan" meaning they will not disclose what party they belong to and they are elected in the primary elections. I found out about him because one of the old sites said "leans Democratic".

[Kingofalldems]

21. Wait, so it's Hillary's fault?

[valerief]

9. I'm sure he's gawd-fearing family man, too, who votes GOP. nt

[LiberalArkie]

14. Probably but a Democrat.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Yay drug war!

[Enthusiast]

11. Imagine that.

[radhika]

15. Does he face criminal charges?

Probably not, silly me....

[ReRe]

16. And let me guess:

... "he was one of those upstanding Christian fundamentalist evangelical types who would give you the shirt right off his back." Am I close? Because of the censorship here at DU, I will not say what I think of dogs like that judge.

[Ned Flanders]

18. But God forgives him

So he will have a deep conservation with his pastor, and God will forgive him. Maybe he'll even attend a couple sex addict counseling sesssions, and come out reformed.

And he will be let off lightly because he is a pillar of the community, who has served his country for almost his entire life.

This shit writes itself.

[AllyCat]

17. Conservatism is a disease.

[Missn-Hitch]

20. Does this mean the Judge won't be refereeing the wrestling match this weekend?