Ethics
Decide suspended by judicial inquiry fee for incompetent, unprofessional habits
Probate Decide Yashiba Blanchard in Jefferson County, Alabama, was faraway from the courtroom following misconduct prices. (Photograph from the Probate Court docket of Jefferson County, Alabama)
An Alabama choose who described herself because the “final authority” has been suspended following complaints that she was incompetent, unprofessional and did not diligently discharge her judicial duties.
Probate Decide Yashiba Blanchard in Jefferson County, Alabama, was faraway from the courtroom indefinitely and was accused of moral and judicial misconduct following a 120-page grievance filed by the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Fee, in accordance with WBRC.
The grievance contains dozens of allegations towards Blanchard claiming that she ran the probate court docket in an incompetent and unprofessional method, routinely focused attorneys and employees, and manufactured a backlog that created havoc in involuntary commitments, in accordance with WBRC.
The fee additionally charged that Blanchard had a sample of failing to observe the legislation by exhibiting bias towards attorneys in her court docket; failure to disqualify from a case through which Blanchard was an lawyer; and harassment, intimidation and retaliation towards probate court docket employees.
Decide Elisabeth French, the presiding choose in Jefferson County, appointed a retired probate choose final week to serve quickly in Blanchard’s place.
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