Drew Broach at the Times Picayune has the details:
Five days after his brother quit as chief attorney for Jefferson Parish government, amid a federal criminal investigation of Parish President Aaron Broussard’s administration, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jay Wilkinson disqualified himself from presiding over all criminal cases in federal court, according to court records released today.
In his March 8 order, Wilkinson cited a federal law requiring that a judge step aside from “any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
We covered Magistrate Wilkinson in Frught, a case where he sanctioned State Farm for lying in discovery. Until the Jefferson Parish political corruption scandal broke we had heard only very good things about Magistrate Wilkinson. Since that time such has been a different matter and what we are hearing is mirrored in the comments to Drew Broach’s story linked above, our readers either highly respect the man or think he is a crook with seemingly no middle ground. Continue reading “Signals that former Jefferson Parish Attorney Tom Wilkinson is going down”