- District Judge Bolton Bevins in Central Kentucky has been reprimanded for engaging in hostile, undignified conduct towards juvenile defendants, violating the Code of Judicial Conduct.
A Central Kentucky judge has been reprimanded for yelling at juvenile defendants and more, according to an agreed order released Friday by the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission.
The commission found that District Judge Bolton Bevins violated the Code of Judicial Conduct by engaging in “hostile, impatient, undignified and discourteous conduct demonstrating bias, lack of impartiality, lack of judicial decorum and abuse of judicial authority.”
Bevins “waived formal proceedings” and “has agreed to this disposition,” according to the reprimand which Bevins signed Thursday…