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Monday, July 21, 2008
Ind. Courts - "After trials, one Lake County town judge changes practices"
Joe Carlson reports today in the NWI Times in a story that begins:
LOWELL | After hearing in recent federal trials about the hijinks involving court-ordered alcohol counseling, Town Court Judge Thomas Vanes decided to stop ordering his defendants to attend sessions at for-profit centers."I don't want to be in a position of ordering them to put money in a crony's pocket," Vanes said.
Not that Vanes feared perceptions about whether he was personally helping a "crony" with his own court orders.
Rather, he said after the recent court cases of Robert Cantrell, Deborah Riga and Nancy Fromm, he has grown weary of trying to untangle which firms are associated with various political players across Lake County.
His solution? He now is ordering defendants charged with drunken driving in his court to attend sessions with Alcoholics Anonymous, which are free.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 21, 2008 08:08 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts