Caddo Parish District Judge Woody Nesbitt’s conduct
Does Caddo Parish District Judge Woody Nesbitt’s conduct over the past three years merit him from being removed from the bench? Allegations include
1. Nesbitt taking his girlfriend to a swinger’s club in Dallas, Texas and inviting couples back to the motel where he wanted his girlfriend to perform sex acts on others while he watched;
2. Showing a nude photograph of his girlfriend to local health club manager Steve Hansford which shows her blindfolded and tied to a bed, and asking him to have sex with her while Judge Nesbitt watched;
3. Filing of a stalking report with Shreveport Police against his girlfriend just days after he left about 16 notes on her car, at home, and at work basically begging her back, and after she had threatened to file stalking charges against him (some of those notes were on judicial stationary);
4. Judge Nesbitt reportedly went out for drinks with a stripper litigant in his courtroom who had appeared in his courtroom that same day when Nesbitt ordered the stripper’s estranged husband to pay spousal support;
5. Judge Nesbitt is found in contempt of court for violating another judge’s court order in Nesbitt’s own divorce proceeding;
6. Judge Nesbitt refusing to recuse himself from cases where he could be considered biased or prejudiced, causing the
7. Judge Nesbitt initiates contempt of court proceedings against his ex-wife’s attorney when he appears in Nesbitt’s courtroom to represent an elderly grandmother on a child custody case With Louisiana being in the national spotlight following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, do you think that since the Louisiana Judiciary Commission has allowed this judge to sit on the bench this long without any action, that it further causes embarrassment to Louisiana?
