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Sunday, October 03, 2004

Indiana Courts - More on running for judge in Indiana

The Munice Star-Press today, in a story headlined "Judicial campaign marked by secretly taped conversation," reports:

MUNCIE - Judicial candidate Jeffery Arnold is crying foul after the bailiff of his opponent, Delaware Circuit Court 1 Judge Marianne Vorhees, urged the victim in a long-dormant stalking case to go public with her complaints about Arnold, the deputy prosecutor in the case.

Steve Aul - a former sheriff who is now bailiff in Vorhees's court and a principal in her election campaign - contacted Christine Weans and asked to meet with her about a 2001 stalking charge filed against her then-husband, Harold Weans, who had already been charged with trying to choke Christine Weans.

The Star-Press story is lengthy and I found it rather hard-to-follow. A related story in same same paper today is titled "Other judicial campaigns have sparked disciplinary action." It begins:
MUNCIE - The attorney for the Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications saw no violations in a recent politically-charged conversation between the bailiff for Delaware Circuit Court 1 Judge Marianne Vorhees and the victim in a stalking case formerly prosecuted by Vorhees' opponent, Jeff Arnold.

But the commission has reprimanded parties in East Central Indiana judicial campaigns in recent years.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 3, 2004 01:50 PM
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