Removal of Judge Urged; Mishandling of Funds Charged
The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission has recommended that a county judge be permanently removed from the bench because she allegedly misappropriated money and threatened her former law partners.
The commission said Tuesday that 68th District Judge Lee Vera Loyd should be permanently removed from office and never permitted to sit as a judge again.
Its recommendation, which now goes to the state Supreme Court, was based on a report by Ingham County Circuit Judge Carolyn Stell, who acted as a fact-finder in the case. No date has been set for the high court to rule on the matter.
Stell reported that Loyd misappropriated $10,500 from a trust fund created from money she won while representing three children injured by a motorcycle in 1981.
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