Legal Industry News
January 12, 2010
Georgia Judge Resigns in the Wake of Facebook Scandal
Judge Ernest “Bucky” Woods, Chief Judge in the Mountain Judicial Circuit Superior Court in Georgia, has resigned because he “just got tired of living under a microscope.” In recent months, allegations have arisen that Woods had an inappropriate relationship with a criminal defendant, Tara Elizabeth Black, that were documented in Facebook emails exchanged between Woods and Black; Black’s criminal charges were pending in Woods’ court.
The emails, which reporters in Georgia obtained through an open records request, indicate that Woods initiated the relationship with Black when he contacted her through Facebook, saying that he noticed she worked in a hair salon…
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