Mobile County Circuit Judge John Lockett entered a $1.19 million judgment against Circuit Judge Stuart Dubose of Clarke County in a legal malpractice case over a $2.5 million estate Dubose handled as a lawyer.
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Judge Ordered to Stop Faxing the Court After Calling Ruling ‘Illegal, Immoral’
Mobile Circuit Judge John Lockett made public a six-page fax from Clarke County Judge Stuart Dubose and ordered him to stop private communications with the court after a $1.2 million judgment.
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Jack Tillman Asks Appeals Court to Reconsider, Says Sheriff’s Lawyer Broke Faith
Attorneys for former Mobile County Sheriff Jack Tillman asked the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals to rehear his bid to undo the misdemeanor convictions that ended his career, arguing his own lawyer testified against him.
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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.