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Monday, February 26, 2007
Ind. Courts - "Judge upset at handgun in court"
The Anderson Herald Bulletin has a story by Shawn McGrath that begins:
A Madison County judge wants the government center’s security policy clarified after a Grant County sheriff’s employee was able to bring a loaded handgun into the courtroom during a hearing in which his daughter’s murderer pleaded guilty to the slaying.Madison Superior Court 3 Judge Thomas Newman Jr., who is also the chief judge of the unified courts, said he brought the issue up during the monthly unified courts judges’ meeting on Thursday.
Newman became upset after learning Grant County Sheriff’s Department employee Willie Clariett, the father of Lorene “Tami” Love, brought a handgun into Newman’s courtroom and sat in the front row and directly behind Darrell Edmonds on Feb. 5
Edmonds, 18, Anderson, was in court to plead guilty to killing Love.
Clariett was wearing his sheriff’s uniform and was let through courthouse security with his service handgun, Newman said. Newman said he didn’t know what had happened, or Clariett’s relationship to Love, until two days after the hearing.
“I was just upset,” Newman said Friday. “I was just mortified. I was stunned.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 26, 2007 12:18 PM
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