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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Ind. Courts - "Judge faces drunken driving charge"
"Judge faces drunken driving charge" is the headline to a just-posted story by Vic Ryckaert on the Indianapolis Star website. Some quotes:
Indianapolis police arrested a Marion Superior Court judge this week on charges of drunken driving.John F. Hanley, 51, who was elected last month to serve his second consecutive six-year term on the county’s bench, was arrested late Monday after police stopped his Chrysler Concorde in the 4900 block of North Keystone Avenue.
Hanley was driving erratically and narrowly missed colliding with a police officer, according to a report. His blood-alcohol level tested at .16 — twice the legal level at which an Indiana driver is presumed to be intoxicated.
Hanley, a Democrat, presides over Civil Court 11. He was on the bench this morning and could not be reached for comment.
Hanley is the former chair of the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Commission, which put him in charge of the state’s Excise Police. Hanley resigned that post in 1999 after then-Excise Police Chief Gene Honeycutt and other officers were accused of having sex with strippers at clubs they were supposed to be monitoring.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 6, 2006 11:16 AM
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