Well done, good sir.
Judge Trudy White apologizes to colleagues for 2014 campaign video
BY JOE GYAN MAR 10, 2017 -
http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/courts/article_0b72b49e-05c3-11e7-9214-3b66ef1c3004.html
State District Judge Trudy White, who returned to the bench in February following an unexplained three-month hiatus, has apologized to her colleagues and the public for appearing in a video during her 2014 re-election campaign with a man in an orange prison jumpsuit who promoted her candidacy inside a courtroom.
White, in a hand-delivered letter Wednesday to her fellow 19th Judicial District Court judges, says she has “learned from this experience and the aftermath, and I will do everything in my power to make sure that such a situation never happens again.”
White, who has steadily refused to say why she was gone from the bench, did not respond to requests for comment after The Advocate on Friday obtained a copy of the letter to judges. The Louisiana Supreme Court, which oversees the panel that reviews judicial behavior, refused to say anything about the matter.
White sent a similar letter by certified mail to Baton Rouge television station WBRZ, apologizing to the citizens of the Baton Rouge area and the entire state.
The man in the video, comedian Jomo Jenkins, stated in the video, “I’m down here at the 19th but check this out, I ain’t gonna be here that long ‘cause Judge Trudy White is fixin’ to send me back home. So if you want somebody to show you some love, vote for Trudy White on November the 4th.”
In her letter of apology to the 19th Judicial District judges, White says she understands how a reasonable person might interpret Jenkins’ prison rap character’s statements “to mean that, if re-elected, I would treat defendants in criminal cases with leniency.”