Source: New York Post
An Alabama judge has been suspended after she was accused of making racial remarks about a white court clerk and postponing critical hearings for patients committed in hospitals so that she could walk her dogs, according to court docs. Probate Judge Yashiba Blanchard is facing dozens of allegations of incompetence in her courtroom and creating a chaotic backlog of cases, with one attorney begging for hearing to go on as scheduled because he was concerned their client was “going to die. ” Blanchard, was allegedly consistently late to court, did not hear a single case related to involuntary commitments until nine months into her term — leaving patients languishing in hospital mental wards, according to the complaint filed by the Judicial Inquiry Commission.
