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Judges Reject Quick Caseload Change for Proctor
posted 06/25/09
2:14 pm
Pulaski County Circuit judges on Thursday failed to approve an effort to ask the state Supreme Court to immediately remove Circuit Judge Willard Proctor's criminal caseload. Judges had already approved a plan to shift Proctor's caseload to all civil cases next year, but the proposal rejected Thursday would have asked the Supreme Court to implement the change immediately.
Five judges voted in favor of the proposal, which required 9 votes to pass, administrative judge Vann Smith said Thursday.
The Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission is expected to vote Friday on whether it will ask the high court to remove Proctor from the bench. A three-member panel of the commission has recommended Proctor be removed because of relationships with some defendants on probation and his connection to a rehabilitation program he created.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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