Seventeen months after Herman Thomas resigned from the Mobile County circuit bench and halted his own misconduct trial, the allegations against him remained unresolved and the questions kept resurfacing.
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Artur Davis Brought a Campaign for Governor to Mobile — and a Pronunciation Lesson
The congressman told about 100 Mobile Democrats that Alabama’s past need not dictate its future, made education his central theme, and asked the city’s television anchors to note that his name is Artur.
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Two Judges Opened Campaigns and a Former DA Bowed Out of the Race
District Judges Charlie McKnight and Bob Sherling scheduled campaign kickoffs, while former Circuit Judge and District Attorney Chris Galanos explained, candidly, why he would not challenge for a circuit seat.
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A Judicial Shuffle in Mobile County: New Faces on the Bench and a Campaign Season Underway
A packed campaign kickoff at Wintzell’s, a newly sworn district judge and a quiet bar inquiry into a former circuit judge left the Mobile County courthouse in an unusual state of flux in January 2008.
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GOP Chairman Mark Erwin Applies for the Circuit Judgeship Left by Herman Thomas
Mobile attorney and Republican Party chairman Mark Erwin formally applied for the circuit court vacancy created by Judge Herman Thomas’s resignation, as more names surfaced for the appointment.
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Former Prosecutor Michel Nicrosi Joins Herman Thomas’s Legal Team
Mobile attorney Michel Nicrosi, who won an acquittal in the Siegelman corruption trial, joined the defense of former Judge Herman Thomas as the district attorney pressed a criminal investigation.
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Judicial Panel Begins Search for Successor After Herman Thomas Resigns
With Judge Herman Thomas gone from the bench, a selection committee chaired by Presiding Judge Charlie Graddick prepared to screen candidates for a Mobile County circuit judgeship, and the list was long.
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Judge Herman Thomas Faced Inmate Paddling Claims Five Years Before Investigation
Sworn statements filed in a 2002 lawsuit by a Mobile inmate accused Judge Herman Thomas of paddling prisoners, five years before a judicial inquiry took up the same allegations.
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Amended Complaint Deepened the Ethics Case Against a Suspended Mobile Judge
In July 2007, prosecutors added 15 charges against suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas after most of his colleagues on the bench accused him of pulling cases off other dockets.
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Suspended Judge Herman Thomas Adds Mobile Counsel as Ethics Case Stalls
Suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas hired Mobile attorney Billy Kimbrough to help defend him before the Judicial Inquiry Commission as a second round of complaints scuttled plans for mediation.