This is why simple confirmation votes to let judges stay on the court are a bad idea. A higher standard is needed.
Oklahoman found that Marshall County District Judge Wallace Coppedge “allowed confessed child rapists or convicted pedophiles to avoid prison at least seven times before.”
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