► Judge D. Neil Harris Sr. of Pascagoula; Judge Roy Bean Wannabee |
Judge D. Neil Harris Sr. of FYI: Judge Roy Bean was an infamous Justice of the Peace and saloon owner in The state of The Mississippi Judicial Commission found Judge Harris guilty of the following misconduct. In 2010, the Mississippi Department of Human Services enlisted a private contractor who used private process servers to pursue child-support and paternity proceedings over which Judge Harris presided in the While sitting on these cases, Harris discovered that some of the parties had not been properly served with process and that returns on the summonses were falsified. In response, Judge Harris instituted criminal contempt proceedings against five process servers, the owner of the private service company, and two notaries public. Shortly thereafter, Harris issued show-cause orders and subpoenas for process server Guy Jernigan and notary public Thomas Corey McDonald to appear at a contempt hearing. At the hearing, Harris found Jernigan and McDonald in civil contempt for failing to provide proper services as well as for filing and notarizing false affidavits. Harris then ordered them to appear for sentencing seven days later. At the sentencing hearing, Harris also found Edwin Cheshire, the employer of Jernigan and McDonald in civil contempt. Harris then imposed monetary sanctions and ordered all three men to write apology letters to the judges of the A month later, Judge Harris issued additional show-cause orders for process servers Shane Corr and Chris Lott; for Craig Wells, the owner of a process-serving company; and for notary public David Smith. At the sentencing hearing, Judge Harris found Lott, Corr, Wells, Smith, and Moon to be in direct criminal contempt, and he sentenced each offender to thirty days' incarceration and a $100 fine. At each of the show-cause hearings, Judge Harris denied the defendants the procedural protections of due process. Specifically, Harris refused to allow the defendants’ attorneys to speak or present a defense in any way. He also failed to recuse (remove) himself from any of the contempt hearings, despite the fact that he was the citing judge in all the cases. Apparently, the As a consequence of his misconduct, the enablers for Judicial Misfits sitting on the Mississippi Supreme Court punished Bobby by gifting him with a complimentary reprimand. As we speak (ca. May 2014), Judge Harris continues to sit as a judge in
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