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| Novi judge resigns a month before facing disciplinary hearing |
| 2014-08-22 |
| [FREEP] Novi District court judge Dennis Powers is resigning from the bench Sept. 1, a month before he faced a disciplinary hearing for misconduct. Powers had been the subject of a television news story earlier this year that accused him of golfing when he should have been on the bench, turning in improper mileage requests and coming in late to work. The Judicial Tenure Commission was seeking to unseat him, saying an audit found that he had received almost $4,000 in mileage he was not entitled to. Powers repaid the money earlier this year and said he had misunderstood the county's mileage policy. He sought some of the mileage reimbursement to travel to real estate classes, and said the classes were important because he sometimes had cases before him involving property disputes. And he said he attended community golf outings as outreach for the court. |
| Posted by:Fred |