CHARLESTON – The behavior of a family court judge accused of being less than candid during a disciplinary investigation “warrants her removal from the bench,” according to disciplinary counsel.
A now-"retired" judge in West Virginia is being accused of violating the First, Fourth and 14th Amendments all at once when she personally traveled to the home of a man involved in a divorce dispute, and then supervised the confiscation of various items from his home.
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court has ordered a retiring Eastern Panhandle family court judge pay more than $3,500 for the investigation into his violation of three rules of the Code of Judicial Conduct.
A West Virginia judge who led a warrantless search of a divorce litigant’s home is not entitled to judicial immunity because she engaged in a nonjudicial act, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.