Justice court judge accused of sexual misconduct
August 4, 2009
Utah: Craig Storey is a Justice Court judge for the Second District in Utah. In July of 2008 Judge Storey's court clerk Marcia Eisenhour spoke to Deputy Weber County Attorney Craig Allred about harassing treatment that she alleged to be receiving from Judge Storey. She accused him of writing a "sexually explicit poem about Eisenhour, described for her a dream in which she was washing dishes in the court's break room while naked from the waist up and that he had called and said he loved her," all of which the judge admitted to. He has not admitted to further allegations of touching Eisenhour with his groin.
County officials asked the Utah Attorney General's Office to take the case, but they declined to act. The county attempted to work out a plan to make Eisenhour feel more comfortable at work by moving the judge's office to a different floor and designating an employee to serve as liaison between the two. However, Eisenhour further alleges that Storey has "cried on the shoulders" of most of the other court employees, who are sympathetic with him, and create a hostile work environment for her.
The Utah Judicial Conduct Commission privately admonished Judge Storey and closed the case a year after the initial complaint.[1]
Footnotes
Federal courts:
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Utah • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Utah
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