The Knucklehead of the Day award

Goes to North Carolina Judge Chester Davis. He was presiding at a trial where a woman Jennifer Lynn Atwood was accused of assaulting her boyfriend. During testimony, the boyfriend Ronald Wayne Childress Jr. changed his testimony against his Ms. Atwood saying he wasn't assaulted by her. When the trial was over, Ms. Atwood was found guilty and sentenced to four days in jail. Then Judge Davis found Mr. Atwood guilty of contempt of court for lying and sentenced him to four days!

Another out of control knucklehead judge. Where do these idiots come from and why do they think if they wear a robe they are God? This is getting way too common, the victims and innocent getting thrown in jail. Judge Davis was out of line, another judge released Mr. Atwood saying Davis didn't follow the right procedure. Lets throw Davis in jail now, that would finally send a message to these knuckleheads that they need to serve and protect t he people not their egos.

For being an out of control maniac, Judge Chester Davis is today's knucklehead of the Day.

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A judge in Forsyth Superior Court ordered yesterday the release of a man who was jailed for contempt after he didn't testify against a girlfriend who was accused of assaulting him.
Prosecutors in domestic court had expected Ronald Wayne Childress Jr. to testify Tuesday against his girlfriend, Jennifer Lynn Atwood. However, when Childress took the stand, he testified that Atwood had not assaulted him.

Judge Chester Davis of District Court nonetheless found Atwood guilty of simple assault and sentenced her to four days in jail. Davis then ruled that Childress had lied under oath and sentenced him to four days in jail as well.

Judge William Wood Jr. of Superior Court ruled yesterday that Davis did not follow the proper procedure in sending Childress to jail.

Wood did not try to determine whether Childress actually lied. But he said that a defendant must be given written notice of a contempt finding and be given an opportunity to respond.

There is no record of that happening in the Childress case.

"I feel Mr. Childress should have been given the opportunity to respond," Wood said. "It's a procedural matter."

In the hearing yesterday, prosecutor Eric Saunders cited cases that he says show that a person can be held in criminal contempt and jailed if that person's testimony is obviously untruthful.

Another witness had testified in domestic court Tuesday that she saw the assault, Saunders said.

Public defender Pete Clary, who sent out a memo in February about "inappropriate" contempt citations, represented Childress at the hearing. He argued that a state statute lists 10 reasons for a person to be held in contempt, and that none of them applied to Childress.

"There are other remedies for this," Clary said. "Perjury (charges) ... or to be called a damned liar."

Saunders said yesterday that it is unlikely that he will seek a perjury charge against Childress.