Earlier this month, the Michigan state Judicial Tenure Fee filed an eight rely ethics grievance (accessible in full under) in opposition to Decide Thomas D. Wilson, alleging a wide range of inappropriate behaviors throughout his time on the bench.
Based on the grievance, Wilson abused alcohol between 2013 and 2021. Throughout that point he would seem in public “smelling of alcohol, trying matted, or showing flushed.” Throughout an interview with the Fee, Wilson additionally acknowledged he would, every so often, go away the courthouse, go dwelling and drink alcohol, earlier than returning to courtroom.
There are additionally allegations of a number of completely different situations of sexual harassment of girls judges and attorneys he labored with, together with commenting on their physique elements and/or attractiveness. Wilson can also be alleged to have boasted about his sexual exploits, telling one choose, “that his penis turned so purple (implying sexual exercise) that he needed to have it checked out on the well being division.”
Wilson additionally allegedly had relationships with events or attorneys showing earlier than him that he did not disclose and inserted himself in instances not earlier than him.
Wilson’s lawyer, Thomas W. Cranmer of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone PLC told Bloomberg Law Wilson is a “revered and trusted jurist in Jackson County” who appears ahead to “clearing his identify.”
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