You may remember the West Virginia Circuit Court Judge who was pulled over in a traffic stop by the Moorefield Police Department, resulting in the dash cam footage going viral on various Youtube channels, including my own, which is where it was first released to the public. Judge Carter Williams ended up being formally charged with judicial disciplinary charges. While those charges were pending, Judge Williams got in trouble again due to allegations he left Walmart with merchandise, but without paying. More judicial disciplinary charges were tacked on…. Well, his judicial disciplinary bench trial just ended, following three days of testimony before West Virginia’s Judicial Hearing Board, which is sort of an ethics court comprised of judges and a few appointed citizens.
Read more: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2022/06/16/wv-judge-in-traffic-stop-bodycam-video-update-trial-just-ended/
Searching for a cellphone while you are driving???
UPDATE:
Judge C. CARTER WILLIAMS
The Supreme Court in West Virginia imposed that the judge be:
Suspended from his position as circuit judge in the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit for a period of six months, without pay.
Required to maintain compliance with the JLAP monitoring agreement for a period of two years, violation of which is reportable to the JIC.
Censured
Fined $5,000
Required to pay the costs of the disciplinary proceeding, but not the costs associated with Dr. Clayman’s review of VCAP records.
There was another subsequent incident where he left Walmart with items he did not pay for. The judge said it was an accident and no action was take in that incident.
Judges don't lie, just ask 'em! He blew it out of proportion!
"Calm down! If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided at the cities expense!"😄
😂 laws don't stop criminals
To the judge: hahahahahaha!
Walmart caught him stealing twice
caught twice
I’m with the judge on this one. The cop was temperamental, petulant and condescending. He had no business, pulling the judge over to start with.
As far as having a cell phone in your hand how many of us have done that? I got pulled over for plugging my phone in to hook up music. I got off but still its stupid!!
Hey judge. Take it up with the judge when you go to court you self-important disgrace.
Rules for thee, not for me! Some cops would've not put up with this!
He was my juvenile judge and I can vouch that he in fact always had a attitude in court
judge looks like he is kinda methed up
Ive been a victim of there bullshit for a long time he is a croked man
Judge Williams and his family are a phucking disgrace.
This is ridiculous. West Virginia judges should be ABOVE the law!
Judge gets a taste of Enforcers "protecting and serving." Welcome to the party, pal.
I honestly don't quite understand what the big deal with this judge is? He was just voicing his displeasure at being pulled over like any other citizen does at times. I didn't think his behavior was really that bad. Doesn't he have the same rights to freedom of speech as everyone else? Just because he argued a bit, but he still asked to receive a ticket. I don't think that's any different than what most citizens do. I kind of think the police officer was harassing him a bit by continuosly asking him about his behavior when he should have just went and wrote the ticket.
Still a judge and still wrongfully wrecking families
If I spent my life learning the law and passing justice to others- I’d take my ticket and keep my mouth shut.
I wìsh they would look at yhe officer was escalating the judge by adking over and over why he was upset.
That officer is very very very good at escalating and the judge took the bait.
Cops see someone is upset and antagonize them by asking stupid questions. Next time I'm gonna let them ask me a bunch of irrelevant questions then I'm gonna go to court and say they detained me longer than they needed to, to write a ticket.
suspended and sanctioned but as far as I can tell he's still judge, business as usual
Another one bites the dust a little bit 😂
Definitely isn’t from my town 👀
How many times has this judge convicts somebody of the same
Whoa, an outlaw with a robe and gavel.
I hate being in state of mind that compells me to "defend" corrupt state/city workers. But it definitely looks to me as though this "hero cop" who is supposed to be serving and protecting the citizens is doing everything he can to escalate this encounter solely for the purpose of antagonizing the judge so that he can be the one who cuffed and kidnapped a judge
When the first words out of his mouth were "I'm Judge Williams", before the cop even said hello, you know he was expecting to be let off with a warning. His excuse was so pathetic! He knows he's not supposed to be using his phone, so if it fell down between the seat and the door, he should have just left it there. There should have been no reason that he couldn't wait until he arrived where he was going, and then simply open the door, get out, and look under the seat. And why would he be holding the phone 📱☎ in his right hand AFTER he picked it up off the floor, when he can't use it? Any normal person would have just left it in the console, shirt pocket, or passenger seat, because holding it and driving with the steering wheel in that hand, is just plain stupid. 📵 He only apologized later to the cop, after he knew he could lose his law license 🎓 😡for how rude and belligerent he was. 🤡💯🧠🕵 He thought he was King in that community.🤴 What a moron.
Can you imagine getting a ticket, bieing pissed about so you decide to track down and show up at a police chiefs or say a police commisionre etc, showing up at their house to complain about a ticket, what do you think would happen to you, id bet any money you would be leaving in cuffs. Whi exactly does this judge think he is. Unbelievable.
Okay i'm watching the footage of the traffic stop. If was anybody else like an average citizen The cop would have had them exited the car and put them in handcuffs
As a judge he should know it's for the courts to sort it out. But not with a judge like him on the bench.
Cop made him feel like he wasnt part of the team which the judge obviously felt like he was but not anymore so now the system will have to rid itself of him before he exposes it as gov money grabbing operation against the public , When you think about all the ways gov taxes or takes money from the people it's a miracle the people aren't all homeless and starving, but that's probably just around the corner with what democrats in Washington are now doing with inflation and climate change policies .