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Alabama Jefferson County Judge Nakita Blocton Off Bench Amid Drug Alabama Jefferson County judge Nakita Blocton off bench amid drug use, mental instability accusations Alabama.com · by Carol Robinson | [email protected] https://www.al.com/news/2021/05/jefferson-county-judge-nakita-blocton-off-bench-accused-of- forcing-staff-to-take-diet-pills-mental-instability.html A Jefferson County domestic relations judge has been temporarily removed from the bench after a 37- page report by the Judicial Inquiry Commission accused of her mental instability and drug use, abuse of staff, attorneys and litigants and failure to promptly dispose of cases. According to the complaint, Circuit Judge Nakita Blocton, who became a judge in 2017 and later swore in Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, committed multiple violations of the Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics. The allegations say the judge – or someone on her behalf - used Facebook aliases to communicate with, and threaten, people who had cases before her. She is alleged to have made members of her staff work extraordinarily long hours and take Phentermine – a diet pill – to “pep” them up after having worked late the night before. “Judge Blocton’s inappropriate and abusive conduct was so persistent, so pervasive so inescapable, so diminishing of her office, and so extreme that disrepute was brought upon the judicial office itself,’' according to the report. Birmingham attorneys Emory Anthony and Robert MacKenzie are representing Blocton and strongly deny the majority of the allegations in the scathing complaint. “If the complaint wasn’t a legal document, it would be a libel lawsuit,” Anthony said. “Usually, I wouldn’t make a statement when dealing the Judicial Inquiry Commission, but these allegations are so embarrassing. We hope at the proper time we’ll have the right to defend these allegations and show that they’re not true. This is just out of left field.” Blocton is the second Jefferson County judge suspended by the commission in recent months. In April, Circuit Judge Tracie Todd was charged with multiple incidents of abuse of judicial power and abandonment of the judicial role of detachment and neutrality. Specifically, Blocton is charged with: Pattern of ex parte communications and inappropriate comments Pattern of abuse of staff and pattern of abuse of attorneys and litigants Appearance of bias, favoritism and retaliation towards attorneys and litigants Pattern of inappropriate demeanor and indecorous behavior Pattern of inordinate delay Appearance of drug use and mental instability Pattern of dishonesty and deception Blocton, who has voluntarily been off the bench since February, was automatically suspended with pay under state rules when the charges were filed. The full complaint can be viewed here. The commission alleges that Blocton has shown a pattern of engaging in ex parte communication with lawyers and litigants, both by telephone and through the use of numerous Facebook aliases. “She has made (or caused to be made) numerous threats, slurs and improper comments to staff, lawyers and litigants concerning cases in front of her, concerning litigants in front of her and concerning fellow judges with whom she works,’' the complaint reads. The communications, according to the document, began around Aug. 21, 2020 and involved aliases such as “Linda Schneider,” “Camellia Williams,” and “Jennifer Foster” to communicate with two people, both of whom were involved in a divorce case being handled in Blocton’s court. The case was later assigned to another Jefferson County judge. One of the litigants, identified only as “A.S.,” filed a complaint against Blocton, and had begun to publicly protest about the judge, asking for her removal from the bench. “These communications are voluminous, consist of hundreds of pages of conversations, and contain confidential information that would only be known by Judge Blocton or someone acting in her direction,’' the complaint states. “The communications are threatening to A.S. who had just filed a complaint against Judge Blocton and purport to provide legal advice to V.S. in his divorce cases against A.S.” Those statements reportedly from Blocton or someone on her behalf, include: “False Prophet How Much is Your White Judge Paying You” “Because you have prophesied when I did not send you, and because you caused my people to believe in a lie, you and your descendants will be punished” “THE DEVIL IS WATCHING U, PAM, ANGELA AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND U/U PLY WIT GOD I PLY WIT THE DEVIL/LEAVE THOSE BLACK WOMEN DEMOCRATS ALONE OR THE DEVIS IS GOING TO GET U” The complaint states that numerous attorneys in the domestic relations bar had been “friended” by at least two of the aliases reportedly used by Blocton. She is alleged to have told one of her employees that she “had at least six aliases and that she used those aliases particularly with respect to A.S. via Facebook because she did not like A.S.” The charge alleging abuse of staff states that Blocton was “verbally abusive and caustic to staff, even calling staff names. It contends the judge required her staff to work unreasonable hours with short notice and with the explicit threat that if they did not, they would be fired that day. The complaint notes that there has been an inordinate amount of turnover on Blocton’s staff since 2017 “due to her abusive and erratic” behavior. “In November 2020, Judge Blocton mockingly placed a ‘gold star’ on (an employee’s) clothing after she berated (the employee) for not appropriately correcting an order,’' the complaint states. “Judge Blocton told (the employee) to ‘shut the hell up.’ When (the employee) tried to leave, Judge Blocton attempted to block her from doing so.” 2 As for abuse of attorneys, the complaint alleges the judge keeps a mental list of attorneys she liked and didn’t like and intentionally and routinely delayed rulings on cases in which “disfavored” attorneys were involved, instructing staff to put that attorney’s case on “the bottom of the stack.” One attorney told the commission that Blocton kept the parties in court from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. Another attorney said that in May 2019, he or she asked for a continuance because the attorney had flu- related symptoms. The attorney gave Blocton a doctor’s note, but “Judge Blocton called the attorney’s doctor from the bench in open court with other attorneys present to confirm the diagnosis, and Judge Blocton proceeded to discuss the attorney’s condition, in clear violation of HIPPAA rules.” Blocton then refused to delay the hearing and an unprepared associate had to move forward with the case. “Since 2018, Judge Blocton has routinely failed – for months and even years – to issue final judgements in uncontested divorces, many of which involve critical spousal support and child custody issues,’' according to the complaint. Some have waited more than two years, and are still waiting, final rulings after proposed orders were submitted, and some have had to hire private judges to finalize the cases. When Blocton took the bench in 2017, she inherited about 425 to 450 cases, which the complaint stated is considered a manageable caseload. The number nearly doubled in 2017-2018. “Long before the COVID-19 health crisis began, and well before Judge Blocton endured the traumatic loss of her father to COVID-19 in March 2020, which was followed by the unexpected death of her grandfather, numerous attorneys in the domestic relations bar have asserted that her chambers was ‘chaos’ and ‘poorly supervised,’’' according to the complaint. Blocton in April 2020 shared extensively with AL.com about her father’s sudden illness, his eventual death and the aftermath of trying to identify his body and plan a funeral. The complaint alleges Blocton has used and been under the influence of prescription pills in her chambers including, but not limited to, Phentermine. “These pills created behavioral changes in Judge Blocton while she was performing her judicial duties, including but not limited to, becoming hyper-talkative and hyper-somnolent (when person experiences significant episodes of sleepiness) in chambers and on the bench, exhibiting paranoid behavior, such as talking in circles about the same topic for hours and expressing a belief that the commission or someone at its direction is ‘going to kill her.’’' “Judge Blocton has also consistently stayed at the courthouse overnight, presumably trying to work, and has told others that she does not sleep for days at a time,’' the complaint states. The judge, according to the commission, routinely displayed a pattern of dishonesty and deception, including sending a letter under an alias with false information to help a cousin obtain a mortgage, 3 instructing an employee to make an improper campaign contribution through Venmo to a mayoral campaign, and to try coach and intimidate people who were called to testify before the commission in the case against her. “We are very disappointed that the Judicial Inquiry Commission took the position to file a complaint against Judge Blocton,’' Anthony said. “About 10 days ago, or more, we filed a notice for mediation. They did not answer that notice and instead filed a complaint against her.” “We deny all allegations concerning her giving anybody any pills, we deny the allegation that she has been communicating ex parte with lawyers or participants, we deny their issue that she has been overusing some type of drug medication, we deny the issue that she has been communicating with anybody by Facebook, we deny the issue that she sent her cousin some kind of paperwork to do a mortgage, which would be fraud,’' Anthony said. “We have attempted to work with them to try to say these are disgruntled employees of hers,’' he said. “One of the young ladies is a young lady who took off against all of the judges in domestic relations.” Blocton, Anthony said, voluntarily got drug tested, and the paperwork was returned saying there was no reason for her to not be on the bench.
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