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336. "A judge's sinful but legal conduct"

By Joel Jacobsen

It's rare that a story about a judge manages to be both too bizarre and too vague for inclusion in this Judges' Hall of Fame, but the celebrated story of Cleveland, Tennessee's Judge John B. Hagler is very nearly disqualified on both counts.  The newly-exed ex-judge did something very, very, you know .... bizarre.  But so far his former colleagues on the bench are preventing us from finding out exactly what.  What we know is this: The judge gave a tape to his former secretary, Nona Rogers, who worked with him for 18 years, accompanying him from private practice when he was first ennobled.  Ms. Rogers said that when she first listened to the tape, thinking it was routine dictation, "I shook all over...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 09, 2008 (boomark / email).