Xudge Herman Thomas, Esquire | SUSPENDED

Alabama.  Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

On this date in the Yel­lowham­mer State, the Alabama State Bar sus­pended x–Judge Her­man Young Thomas’ bar tend­ing license as a con­se­quence of his indict­ment, by a Mobile County grand jury last week on charges rang­ing from kid­nap­ping and sex abuse to sodomy and extor­tion– 57-counts in all.

Accord­ing to Gary McEl­roy of the Press Reg­is­ter Thomas is accused of using his posi­tion to gain sex­ual favors from crim­i­nal defen­dants.  In par­tic­u­lar, young, male jail inmates.

Thomas, who resigned from the bench in Octo­ber, 2007 had been prac­tic­ing at Carter & Brandy­burg, P.C. in Mobile, Alabama, which, accord­ing to the firm’s website, handles “[C]ar wreck injury, slip and fall, crim­i­nal defense, divorce, child sup­port [and], pro­bate matters.”

Accord­ing to the Press Reg­is­ter arti­cle, “Thomas’ attor­ney, Robert Clark (Clark & Deen, P.C. in Mobile, AL), said Mon­day after­noon that he was ‘enraged’ to have been told about the sus­pen­sion by a reporter, rather than being con­tacted directly by the State Bar.”  

That’s cer­tianly under­stand­able.  After such deci­sions are “leaked” to the press it becomes impos­si­ble to “appeal” them with a big bag of cash.

Thomas will appeal the Alabama State Bar’s deci­sion, alledgedly.

Go to arti­cle in the Press Reg­is­ter