WISH‘s ongoing investigation into the hypocrisy openly exercised by a local judge, who last year dismissed a handicapped woman’s efforts to overturn a parking ticket she received while parked in a handicapped spot, appears to have reached its conclusion as the Indiana Supreme Court publicly admonished traffic judge Charles W. Hunter this week.
Back in October, WISH looked into the case of a local woman who was protesting a ticket she received when her handicapped parking placard was resting on her car’s dashboard instead of being hung on the rear-view mirror. During its investigation, WISH discovered that the judge, who uses a wheelchair, was himself parked in a handicapped spot outside the courthouse without his placard visible.
When asked about the seeming hypocrisy, the judge, who had recently issued a guilty verdict in the woman’s case, said, “I didn’t get a ticket, did I?” (video above).
Following the incident, WISH continued its coverage and even sat down with the local mayor:
After a long battle (and a lot of WISH coverage), the woman’s parking ticket was dismissed in April:
And this week the Indiana Supreme Court issued a statement, saying that Hunter had admitted to violating a rule within the Code of Judicial Conduct that requires judges to “act in a manner that promotes the public’s confidence in the judiciary and to avoid the appearance of impropriety.”