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367. Life's a Blitch

By Joel Jacobsen

On Wednesday a Tennessee judge, Ronald E. Darby, was indicted. He sits on the court of General Sessions - what used to be called JP court, hearing misdemeanor and small claims cases - in Benton County, up in the northwest part of the state, not so very far from the southern tip of Illinois. Benton County is a rural area of the state. Its population density ranks it 74th among Tennessee counties, and it's poorer than the average county, too. Wikipedia says it is known locally "for its duck hunting and fishing industries" - which I didn't even know were industries. Judges in such isolated areas can establish despotisms. The most extreme example is the psychopathic David Lanier (scroll down), who presided over family court in another western Tennessee county, Dyer, for the opportunity it provided him to rape female litigants in his soundproofed, windowless office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on October 25, 2008 (boomark / email).