A
West Virginia man has lodged a complaint against family law judge Mike
Kelly. Jim Canterbury says that the
Judge not only ignored the information that his wife was already married to
another man, and had falsified her name, but the judge also refused to pass the
information along to the police.
According
to Jim, He married his wife, Jacqueline, 41 years ago. They'd had an affair
Jacqueline became pregnant and left her husband. She then told Canterbury that her husband had
divorced her, so they got married.
Recently
he discovered that the divorce had not gone through for another 2 years. At that point Canterbury decided his wife was
hiding more. After hiring a private
investigator, he found that her real name was different than the name she gave
him. Canterbury got upset, so did his
wife, and she filed a violence protection order against him because he scared
her. Enraged, Canterbury filed for divorce, and told his wife he was going back
to New England to find out who she really was.
Kelly
listened to the evidence but failed to take it into consideration when handling
the divorce verdict. The State Judicial Investigation Commission has promised
to look into the case. Judge Kelly
refused to comment, but said that he sent Canterbury a communication regarding
the complaint. Canterbury says he never
received anything.
No
matter how this turns out, Canterbury feels that he will always be cynical of
the legal system. He says, "I've
lived for 60 some years thinking that if you come before a judge you will get
justice. Anything but justice happened in this case."
Source:
www.wvrecord.com