Ga. Judge Faces New Misconduct Charges (for signing and handing out blank arrest warrants to cops)

Ga. Judge Faces New Misconduct Charges
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA — The state added more charges Tuesday against a powerful judge in a rural county whose practices are being investigated, alleging that he signed blank warrants and gave them to probation officers throughout his circuit.

The state's Judicial Qualifications Commission claims the blank probation arrest warrants were used "numerous times" when Clinch County Superior Court Judge Brooks E. Blitch III wasn't available to sign completed warrants.

The commission also claims Blitch violated judicial canon by talking with probation officers about suspects without holding a hearing or notifying the victim and prosecutors.

The charges come nearly three weeks after the commission filed seven misconduct claims against Blitch. He is also accused of ordering illegal payments to county employees, ordering the early release of imprisoned felons and presiding over a case involving his son...

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Nov20/0,4670,JudgeInvestigated,00.html

This sort of thing isn't all that surprising, really.

last name was Bitch. Well, now that I can clearly see his name is not, the problem sure is-a bitch. Can't we get anyone to do there job. Man o Man,but my faith in our courts is so diminished. Here in Wisconsin a newly elected Wisconsin supreme court judge was accused during her election, and now has admitted ethics violations. But her buddies that she is now serving with don't want to punish one of their own.

What a crappy judge. That's like a doctor handing out blank/signed prescriptions.