The panel receives more time to resolve the fate of the stopped judge of Baton Rouge – the lawyer

It has been more than six months since the Louisiana Supreme Court issued a bomb order that removed the 19th court regional judge Eboni Johnson has risen from the bench while civil servants are investigating charges of misconduct.

The order on August 6 stated that investigators with the Louisiana Judicial Commission have six months to recommend disciplinary action against Johnson to rise in the Supreme Court. This period passed last week, without finding the panel.

On February 6, the Supreme Court judges granted a 60-day extension of the investigation, giving the Judiciary Committee until April 7 to issue its sentence. The court’s order does not list the reason for the extension.

A phone call to Johnson Rose’s lawyer was not returned immediately.

The Supreme Court in Louisiana sharply halted Johnson, growing with a dividing ruling, with five of the seven judges agreed that she was as incompetent as a district judge that he was a “essential threat of serious damage to the public.”

Johnson Rose, who was selected in December 2020, examined criminal and civil cases under the 19th JDC package. She failed to rise to the first Court of Appeal in the November election in her candidacy, losing to Kelly Balfour.

The suspension of the Supreme Court was a drastic and relatively rare step that held Johnson aside in anticipation of the result of the investigation by the judicial committee. The temporary removal came after the committee recommended suspension after investigating the allegations of a violation that lasted several months.

Prior to disqualification, Johnson Rose was confronted with a check after several of her decisions and sentences were called into question last year.

In March, the judge condemned former Baton Rouge police officer charged with a sexual violation against a South University student for abuse of a “offense” of a position. When the lawyers pointed out that there was no such crime in Louisiana’s law, she justified the defendant by deriveing ​​intensive objections from prosecutors.

In April, the Supreme Court of the State overturned the sentence of a Baton Rouge teacher accused of hitting a car on a flooded street with a baseball bat and threatening its inhabitants with a gun. Johnson Rose initially read a sentence for “not guilty”, but then returned everyone to the courtroom and issued a guilty sentence, saying that the jurors had misunderstood the instructions.

When the Senial Court was overturned, the Supreme Court ruled that Johnson Rose had been incorrectly met only with the jurors after the trial. In accordance with one of the judges, it came to the point of questioning “Johnson Rose’s professional competence”.

Then, in May, Johnson Rose had to release the guilty legal basis for a lawyer in Texas, who admitted that he had put the home of his ex -girlfriend Baton Rouge in fire because the judge stopped too much from the time of his prison.

Johnson Rose, who is black, has accused the Eastern Baton District Prosecutor Ruzh Hillar Moore “systematically targeted at black men” during a side lane on April 29 with prosecutors and public defenders. The judge was disappointed that the lawyers wanted another postponement in a case that disappeared on her package without resolution, and sought the defendant to plead guilty to the crimes he refused to commit.

“The young man has no frickening crimes. And I know DA probably wants every young black man in prison, but I don’t, “said Johnson Rose during a Bench conference with lawyers.

“And this case is cursed at 4 years now,” she added. “And this is the best you can think? You will just go to what, you stick each N ***** R in prison? “

Three weeks after Johnson Rose made the comments, eight days after the local WAFB television station released news about the judge’s remarks without a cuff-mur cuff presented a complaint to the court committee.