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.
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Judge Herman Thomas Denied All 15 Counts in Judicial Ethics Complaint
The Mobile County circuit judge filed a one-page answer denying every count of a complaint accusing him of letting family, social and political relationships influence his conduct in three criminal matters.
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Fifteen Ethics Counts Filed Against Mobile Circuit Judge Herman Thomas
The Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission lodged a 15-count complaint in March 2007 against Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas, sidelining him from the bench while the case proceeded.
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Deputy Superintendent Hired a Lawyer as Scrutiny of 200 Phone Calls Intensified
Mobile County’s deputy school superintendent retained veteran attorney William A. Kimbrough after questions arose about more than 200 phone conversations with an ousted school board member under a court order.