MORGANTOWN – West Virginia’s Family Court Judicial Association has drafted a resolution asking the state Supreme Court to fire the state’s Chief Judicial Disciplinary Counsel and her deputy.
Earlier this month, members of the association voted during its Spring 2021 meeting this week in Morgantown to request the termination of Teresa Tarr and Brian Lanham.
On May 28, a copy of the two-page resolution was obtained by
The West Virginia Record. Tarr
“The JDC (Judicial Disciplinary Counsel) has repeatedly committed prosecutorial misconduct in such instances as, but not limited to, misstating the law to judicial officers and tribunals; bringing ethics charges against judicial officials when no canon violation nor infraction of the law has occurred; employing threatening, coercive and bullying tactics toward judicial officers; and using unauthorized and unprofessional means to communicate alleged infractions to a judicial officer; …
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia’s Family Court Judicial Association has drafted a resolution asking the state Supreme Court to fire the state’s Chief Judicial Disciplinary Counsel and her deputy.
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia’s Family Court Judicial Association plans to ask the state Supreme Court to fire the state’s top Judicial Disciplinary Counsel.
According to several members of the association, the membership voted this week during the Spring 2021 meeting this week in Morgantown to request the termination of Teresa Tarr.
None of the members would speak on the record regarding the vote, but all of them confirmed the vote did occur. One said the vote included almost 40 members and that “well more than half, maybe two-thirds” of the members voted to request Tarr’s termination. Tarr
Outgoing Association President Deanna Rock from Mineral County declined comment when asked about the meeting and the vote. Incoming President Brian Cromley from Jackson County did not return calls seeking comment.
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West Virginia Legislative Photography Delegates join Speaker of the House Roger Hanshaw at the podium during a floor session on Thursday, April 8, 2021.
A bill to rewrite the state’s criminal code won’t go into effect this year.
Senators agreed on Thursday to pass an amended version of House Bill 2017. That new version reversed course and requested that a newly established sentencing commission weigh in on the bill s provisions.
House leadership decided Thursday afternoon to refer the bill their Judiciary Committee, which has no plans to consider bills for the rest of the session, basically killing that specific piece of legislation.