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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Courts - "Michigan Supreme Court censures ex-justice for secretly recording court deliberations"

From a Detroit Free Press story by Dawson Bell:

The Michigan Supreme Court has issued a pointed rebuke of former justice Elizabeth Weaver for making secret recordings of internal court deliberations and releasing some of the transcripts.

The court released Monday a copy of a Nov. 17 letter to Weaver, signed by five of the court's seven justices, in which they say "it is truly a sad day when this Court is forced to censure a former colleague."

Weaver responded with a statement in which she said she had "done nothing wrong," reiterated long-standing disdain for her former colleagues and suggested that she intends to make public additional transcripts of court deliberations.

The court's censure stems from Weaver's release in October of partial transcripts of a meeting of the court to discuss a pending 2006 case. She said the transcripts showed that another justice, Robert Young Jr., used inappropriate language and should be defeated.

[More] Here is more, from the WSJ Law Blog.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 23, 2010 11:51 AM
Posted to Courts in general