District Attorney General
   7th Judicial District of Tennessee   

Questions & Answers Regarding Charging Issues


QUESTION: WHAT ARE THE RIGHTS OF A JUDGE?

ANSWER: Judges have no "rights". Defendants, victims, and the State have rights.

Judges have duties and responsibilities, for example at Canon 3. B. (4)

"A judge shall be patient, dignified, and courteous to litigants, jurors, witnesses, lawyers and others with whom the judge deals in an official capacity..."

Jim Ramsey, District Attorney General


 


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