Most of the news I’ve gathered this week is from right here in North Carolina, but I’ll start with an interesting story from Oklahoma. The AP reports here that “A new Oklahoma judge could lose her job for sending more than 500 texts to her bailiff during a murder trial, including messages mocking the prosecutor, praising the defense attorney and calling a key witness a liar.” Judge Traci Soderstrom seems to have spent much of her time texting and scrolling through social media while presiding over a trial involving the murder of a two year old. Some of the texts were crass and tasteless enough that I won’t repeat them. She has acknowledged that her texting “probably could have waited.” The Chief Justice of the state supreme court has recommended her removal. Keep reading for more news. Former Granville County Sheriff pleads guilty to felony obstruction of justice. WRAL has the story here. It reports that “[t]he charges stem from an incident in 2014 in which [former Sheriff Brindell] Wilkins was accused of urging someone to kill a deputy he thought was about to expose his alleged use of racially offensive language.” Wilkins was sentenced to 8 to 19 months in prison, consecutive to a sentence he is already serving for obtaining property by false pretenses. The latter charges were based on evidence concerning the falsification of training records. Tablets in prisons. Fellow parents, have you ever given your child a phone or an iPad for a few minutes just to [...]
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