Nutjob Judge Gets Canned in AL = "firing a machine gun at a surveying crew"

[L. Coyote]

Nutjob Judge Gets Canned in Alabama
Roger Shuler - http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Nutjob-Judge-Gets-Canned-by-Roger-Shuler-080606-364.html

How bad does a state judge in Alabama have to be in order to get ousted by the state's Court of the Judiciary? ....

DuBose was removed from office on a range of judicial misconduct charges that began before he took the bench. Witnesses said DuBose had a history of abusing painkillers and other prescription drugs. And he is in the Baldwin County jail on a federal charge of possessing as many as 30 guns in violation of a restraining order. The judge was arrested after firing a machine gun at a surveying crew near his home in Jackson, Alabama. No one was injured in the incident.

... He was alleged to have manipulated a multimillion-dollar estate for his own benefit and promised local attorneys a "home-field advantage" over out-of-town lawyers in his courtroom.

.....

But Shelby County is infamous for "home cooking" that benefits "local counsel," such as William E. Swatek, the dirtbag lawyer who filed a bogus lawsuit against me. Swatek, as I've written before, has a son (Dax Swatek) who is a close associate of Republican operative Bill Canary. And Canary has close ties to Karl Rove. .....

[bluerum]

1. So - you have shoot at someone before they notice you're unstable in

the Al. judiciary?

Scum like this they let sit on the bench. The ones with exemplary records they sack for partisan bs.

Maybe _debose and _rove will be prison-mates some day. They deserve each other.

[Frances]

2. My home town paper has been covering the DuBose

case.

Ironically, my mother lived for 50 years on DuBose Avenue in a town next to Jackson, AL.