Judge suspended for Latino jailings
The Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission suspended District Judge Sue Carol Browning without pay for 15 days for jailing 17 Latino immigrants for traffic infractions and then denying them bail.
Some of the 17 were held as long as three weeks before another judge freed them. Circuit Judge Tyler Gill ruled in October that the men were “jailed without reason.”
The commission said Browning, who oversaw cases in two western counties, violated the canons of judicial conduct by instructing police officers to arrest immigrants without identification during traffic stops, then denying the men the right to bail.
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