Around 12:30am, all three were drinking with a court magistrate at another bar, throwing darts and playing cornhole. The magistrate went inside while the three judges waited in the parking lot. At that time, two men, Alfredo Vazquez and Brandon Kaiser, drove by in a blue SUV and “shouted something out the window,” according to the Supreme Court opinion. Though a grand jury declined to indict Jacobs, a Republican who has also been on the Clark County court for five years, the Indiana Supreme Court suspended him for 30 days without pay. As circuit judges, they hear all kinds of cases — small claims, felonies, misdemeanours — though Jacobs’ office said about 90% of the cases his court hears are drug-related.

Source: bd News24 November 16, 2019 16:07 UTC