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Murray County, Georgia – Last week, a former Georgia judge was found guilty of planting meth in a woman’s car because she accused him of sexual harassment. Earlier this year, Bryant Cochran, chief magistrate of Murray County, was forced to resign after the allegations against him went public.
Throughout the duration of the trial, Cochran continued to deny the claims but was convicted this month after the investigation into this case uncovered a deep history of corruption. In addition to the charge of conspiring to plant methamphetamine in Angela Garmley’s car, Cochran was also found guilty of sexually assaulting one county employee, illegally searching the cell phone of another and tampering with a witness, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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originally posted by: DAVID64
I wish I could be shocked or at least a little surprised, but with the "Justice" system the way it is, I'm neither. They should go back and review ever case this judge was involved in, especially if there were women convicted of crimes. I'm glad they caught him and let's hope he doesn't get special treatment.
ETA: You know what would be nice to see? Public flogging for any official caught violating their oath of office and automatic 3 days in the stocks.
His sentence brings to closure a dark time in the history of the city of Wilkes-Barre, PA, which is in Luzerne County. He was found guilty in February of racketeering for taking a $1 million kickback from the builder of for-profit prisons for juveniles. Ciavarella who left the bench over two years ago after he and another judge, Michael Conahan, were accused of sentencing youngsters to prisons they had a hand in building. Prosecutors alleged that Conahan, who pleaded guilty last year and is awaiting sentencing, and Ciavarella received kick-backs from the private company that built and maintained the new youth detention facility that replaced the older county-run center.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: 727Sky
My God.
I think there may be a case for mandatory psychological evaluations of all judges to ensure this sort of criminal proclivity is identified in any other individuals who might be guilty of similar abuses of their authority. This man being a judge... its like the Joker being police commissioner of Gotham. It makes, NO sense!
originally posted by: Soloprotocol
originally posted by: DAVID64
I wish I could be shocked or at least a little surprised, but with the "Justice" system the way it is, I'm neither. They should go back and review ever case this judge was involved in, especially if there were women convicted of crimes. I'm glad they caught him and let's hope he doesn't get special treatment.
ETA: You know what would be nice to see? Public flogging for any official caught violating their oath of office and automatic 3 days in the stocks.
If he ends up in with some of the Prisoners he might have stitched up i'm sure he will receive "Special Treatment"
Wasn't their a case in the US where a Judge was involved with a private prison. he was either a shareholder or he was getting a backhander for keeping the prison full. he was jailing kids for a couple of years for minor things like arguing with their parents and under age drinking etc.
originally posted by: Lysergic
How many go uncaught?