{"id":4787,"date":"2016-04-23T19:25:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T23:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2016-05-03T19:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T23:19:17","slug":"district-judge-public-reprimanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/04\/23\/district-judge-public-reprimanded\/","title":{"rendered":"District Judge Public Reprimanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1015\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2015\/10\/01\/man-indicted-for-murder-of-infant\/gavel-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gavel.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gavel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gavel.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gavel.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"gavel\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1015\" \/><br \/>\nA Jefferson District Court judge who jailed a witness without a hearing has been given a public reprimand.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Judicial Conduct Commission has voted 4-1 to publicly sanction Judge Sheila Collins for interrogating a witness without counsel and jailing her after the witness withdrew an allegation that she was a domestic violence victim. One member voted for a private reprimand.<\/p>\n<p>The commission said in a release Friday that Collins &#8220;should never have directed the Sheriff to take this witness into custody and to charge the witness with a crime &#8230; That is the role of the duly elected prosecutorial authorities.&#8221; The witness was later released by another judge.<\/p>\n<p>Her lawyers, retired judges Martin Johnstone and Steve Ryan, have asked the commission to reconsider its findings.<br \/>\nSource:  AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jefferson District Court judge who jailed a witness without a hearing has been given a public reprimand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gavel.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-1fd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 07:14:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4788,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}