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Monday, December 14, 2009
Ind. Courts - "Clark County judge Dan Moore offers new approach"
A long story yesterday by Dan Moss of the Louisville Courier Journal began:
As a judicial candidate, Dan Moore was asked how he would solve the drug problem.In addition, this Dec. 12th ILB entry also mentioned Judge Moore: "Supreme Court issues writ re Clark Circuit Judge Daniel E. Moore ."Moore handed the question right back. Put me on the bench and I will expect you on the team, Moore responded in so many words. We are all in this together.
Moore cannot sit every Clark County resident on every jury, of course. But he can — and does — make a point to hang out with those who last fall elected him judge of circuit court. Moore still campaigns, one might suggest, clearly still figures it's only fair to challenge others as he challenges himself.
He is on a circuit, all right — at schools, in churches. And don't worry about always calling Moore judge, or your honor, when he is out and about.
“I could never be stodgy,” Moore said. “I just can't do it.”
Moore has made the most news, so far, by his sentence of Yalanda Parrish to 10 years in prison in a road-rage shooting. Some called the term too harsh, others too lenient.
Inside the courthouse, Moore stirs things up by helping peruse new ways for the courts to function.
Must there be six probation departments? Can't cases be transferred easily, efforts consolidated? Why spend probation fees on anything but probation and court services? Shouldn't magistrates be afforded job descriptions, and more respect? Can't lawyers more readily volunteer their services?
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 14, 2009 10:11 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts