Why is it RACISM whenever a prominent black person is accused of wrongdoing? In this instance, the NAACP is playing the race card even though all the victims are black.
SHORT-ARM OF THE LAW: JUDGE ON TRIAL FOR SEXUAL ABUSE, SPANKING JAIL INMATES
PacoVilla’s Corrections blog
October 6, 2009
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Herman Thomas had an enviable political record as a black Democrat elected and re-elected in a county overwhelmingly white and increasingly Republican. The respected circuit judge once was the Democratic Party's choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama.
Then his career collapsed under allegations that he brought inmates to his office and spanked them with a paddle. Later, an indictment accused him of sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency. The trial on charges of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, assault and ethics violations is set to start Monday...
Thomas stepped down from the bench in 2007 after the allegations of paddling surfaced...He was indicted on the more-serious charges this past spring by a Mobile County grand jury. If convicted of the most serious charges — sodomy and kidnapping — he faces from 20 years to life in prison...
...The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a leading civil rights group, has defended Thomas and claims race is behind his prosecution...[Yet] each of the victims is black...jail checkout records back up inmates' claims about trips to Thomas' private office, and other inmates spotted marks after paddlings. There also is other evidence, according to court records, including one inmate's seminal fluid on the office carpet...Prosecutors say they have 15 current and former male inmates lined up to testify in a trial that could take several weeks.
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