Legal Ethics
Tenn. Judge Charged with Making Probationers Work on his Property
Posted Oct 24, 2008, 11:56 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A Tennessee judge has been charged with official misconduct based on accusations he required probationers to perform work on his private property.
Judge Ronald Darby of Benton County was indicted on Monday, report the Camden Chronicle and the Jackson Sun. He is accused of having work done by probationers he supervised in the drug court that he founded.
Darby’s lawyer, Ben Dempsey, told the publications that his client “categorically denies any wrongdoing or violations of criminal law.”