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Jefferson County judge Nakita Blocton off bench, accused of forcing staff to take diet pills, mental instability
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A Jefferson County domestic relations judge has been temporarily removed from the bench after a 37-page report by the Judicial Inquiry Commission accused of her mental instability and drug use, abuse of staff, attorneys and litigants and failure to promptly dispose of cases.
According to the complaint, Circuit Judge Nakita Blocton, who became a judge in 2017 and later swore in Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, committed multiple violations of the Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics.
The allegations say the judge – or someone on her behalf - used Facebook aliases to communicate with, and threaten, people who had cases before her. She is alleged to have made members of her staff work extraordinarily long hours and take Phentermine – a diet pill – to “pep” them up after having worked late the night before.
PICTURED: Alabama judge who used fake social media accounts to harass claimants, made staffers take diet pills and took drugs that made her erratic
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Nakita Blocton has been charged with violating multiple rules of judicial ethics by the Judicial Inquiry Commission
She is temporarily removed from the bench after becoming a judge in 2017
A complaint against her details alleged aliases Linda Schneider, Camellia Williams, and Jennifer Foster which were used from August 2020
Messages were targeted at two people in a divorce case she was handling
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama judge who handles domestic relations cases used fake social media accounts to harass people with cases before her, verbally abused office workers and lawyers and showed signs of drug use and mental instability, state judicial investigators alleged.
A complaint against Jefferson County Circuit Judge Nakita Blocton by the Judicial Inquiry Commission, which charged her with violating multiple rules of judicial ethics, also claimed she took an inordinate amount of time to dispose of cases.
Blocton has been temporarily removed from duty and denied allegations that include multiple improper communications through Facebook detailed in the complaint, which was filed Friday, al.com reported.