Beverley Nettles-Nickerson
Beverley Nettles-Nickerson was a judge on the Michigan Circuit Court.
Judge suspended
In 2008, the Michigan Supreme Court suspended Nettles-Nickerson through the date of her trial on September 12, 2008. According to the Michigan Citizen, "the court based the suspension on numerous charges filed by the Judicial Tenure Commission, including one that she unfairly accused Circuit Court Chief Judge William Collette of racial bias in his treatment of her" (Nettles-Nickerson later withdrew the complaint). The charges that the Judicial Tenure Commission alleged were: holding a press conference to "support" her court clerk against "imaginary" attempts of others to fire her, that Nettles-Nickerson lived out of the district, and that she was late in holding court proceedings.[1] According to the ABA Journal, Judge Nettles-Nickerson "lied under oath during her own divorce and submitted fake documents in her judicial ethics case, a nine-member state panel contends."[2]
Michigan's Judicial Tenure Commission eventually found that Nettles-Nickerson fabricated documents, improperly dismissed cases and allowed a social relationship to influence the release of a defendant from probation.[3]
See also
External links
- Judge Nettles-Nickerson 'unfit for office'
- The Michigan Citizen: America's Most Progressive Community Newspaper
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