Judge who oversaw Ferguson cases replaced by state judge
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The Missouri Superme Court responded Monday to last week's report from the Justice Department and reassigned a state judge to the municipal system so he could take over court cases in Ferguson, Mo.
Judge Roy L. Richter was moved from a state appeals court to the Circuit Court in St. Louis County, where he will hear cases from Ferguson. (Source: New York Times)
The municipal judge who had been overseeing Ferguson cases, Ronald J. Brockmeyer, resigned, effective immediately, on Monday.
Last week, The Guardian reported that Brockmeyer, "the judge in Ferguson, Missouri, who is accused of fixing traffic tickets for himself and colleagues while inflicting a punishing regime of fines and fees on the city's residents, also owes more than $170,000 in unpaid taxes."
Brockmeyer still holds positions in other municipalities.
The Justice Department called for an overhaul of Ferguson’s criminal justice system last week, after a report described the city and its police and courts as a moneymaking machine, laced with racial prejudice and aggressive police practices.
National attention zeroed in on Ferguson after Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man, was shot and killed last year. The white officer who killed Brown, Darren Wilson, was cleared of federal wrongdoing by a Justice Department investigation.
