Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s office attempted to intervene in a criminal case involving a years-old hit-and-run but the reason is a mystery so far.
The judge informed attorneys in the case and refused to consider the correspondence.
“The Court finds that the correspondence constitutes an ex parte communication concerning a pending matter and is not appropriate for consideration by the Court pursuant to the Indiana Trial Rules,” reads a Sept. 25 order from Franklin Circuit Judge Alex Dudley, who is the special judge in Jordan Wadle’s Fayette County criminal case…