Leonard Removes Self From Bench
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Source: GARY L. WRIGHT, AMES ALEXANDER, STAFF WRITERS Mecklenburg District Judge Jerome Leonard, under fire for having the lowest drunken driving conviction rate in the county, has decided he won’t hold any more court this year, a state court official said Wednesday. And the 68-year-old judge may not return to the bench at all, sources have told the Observer. Leonard, a retired judge who has helped handle the county’s heavy caseloads, has asked the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts in Raleigh not to schedule him Source : nl.newsbank.com |