A West Virginia judge accused of a sexual relationship with a community corrections director was "seduced and taken advantage of," her lawyer argued in her ethics case before the state supreme court.
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[Jaymie] Wilfong, a Randolph County circuit judge, had a two-year romantic relationship with North Central Community Corrections Director William Travis Carter that included in-chambers trysts between court proceedings...
Deitzler [her defense attorney at ethics proceedings] told the state supreme court there were only two instances of sexual conduct at the courthouse, and the affair didn't affect the judge's impartiality. He also said the judge was seduced.
"I'm not using it as an excuse," Deitzler said. "The perception unquestionably is she was seduced and taken advantage of."
You have to love the, er, creativity of an attorney who says, "I'm not using it as an excuse," and then, a full ten words later, says she was "taken advantage of."
We had an incident just like this at Orange County Superior in September -
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/steiner-633603-commission-attorney.html
I've personally never been in front of him, but his punishment of being demoted to Fullerton (all lame cases there like misdemeanors, evictions, small claims) is pretty slight.