Suspended Jefferson County Probate Judge Yashiba Blanchard denies all allegations in a 120-page complaint against her that was sent to a state judicial disciplinary court.
Lawyers for Blanchard, who was suspended May 21 after a complaint was forwarded to the Alabama Court of the Judiciary by Alabama’s Judicial Inquiry Commission, submitted a general denial regarding the seven charges against her.
“Judge Blanchard asserts all legal and equitable defenses as to the allegations in these charges,” lawyers wrote in the June 13 filing…