Beverley Nettles-Nickerson
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Beverley Nettles-Nickerson is a judge on the Michigan Circuit Court.
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Judge suspended
The Judicial Tenure Commission has issued investigations and charges against Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Beverley Nettles-Nickerson. As of June 6, 2008, the Michigan Supreme Court indefinitely suspended her through the date of her trial on September 12, 2008. According to the Michigan Citizen, "the court based the suspension on numerous charges filed by the Judicial Tenure Commission, including one that she unfairly accused Circuit Court Chief Judge William Collette of racial bias in his treatment of her" (Nettles-Nickerson later withdrew the complaint). The charges that the Judicial Tenure Commission alleged were: holding a press conference to "support" her court clerk against "imaginary" attempts of others to fire her, that Nettles-Nickerson lived out of the district, and that she was late in holding court proceedings. [1] According to the ABA Journal, Judge Nettles-Nickerson "lied under oath during her own divorce and submitted fake documents in her judicial ethics case, a nine-member state panel contends."[2]
Files for unemployment
Removed from her court for misconduct, Beverley Nettles-Nickerson has filed for unemployment benefits. Nettles-Nickerson is also running for re-election in November to her $139,919-a-year job. The director of the state's Unemployment Insurance Agency says judges can't receive unemployment compensation, and it is unknown when she applied for unemployment pay.
Michigan's Judicial Tenure Commission found that Nettles-Nickerson fabricated documents, improperly dismissed cases and allowed a social relationship to influence the release of a defendant from probation.[3]
See also
External links
- Judge Nettles-Nickerson 'unfit for office'
- The Michigan Citizen: America's Most Progressive Community Newspaper
