LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas judge charged with breaking judicial
ethics rules for participating in an anti-death penalty demonstration the same
day he blocked the state from using an execution drug says a disciplinary panel
should dismiss its case against him.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen’s attorneys renewed their May
2017 request for the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission to dismiss
the complaint against the judge.
He was photographed on a cot outside the governor’s mansion last year wearing
an anti-death penalty button and surrounded by people holding signs opposing
executions. Earlier that day, Griffen blocked the state from using a lethal
injection drug over claims the company had been misled by the state.
A three-member panel of the commission on Friday charged Griffen with
violating ethics rules over the demonstration.
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