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January 31st

Clearing The Air

State dismisses wrongdoing claims against
Judge Warshawsky.

ALAN ABRAMS

Special to the Jewish News

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leared of criminal wrong-
doing, visiting Oakland
County Circuit Judge
Meyer Warshawsky told
the Jewish News Tuesday he "bears
no ill will" towards his accuser, a
former court *clerk.
Speaking through his attorney
William P. Hampton, Warshawsky
said he holds no grudges but "con-
tinues to be baffled by why someone
would do something like that."
Hampton is with the Farmington
Hills firm of Secrest, Wardle, Lynch,
Hampton, Truex and Morley.
Warshawsky, 79, who lives in
South Haven, handled Oakland
County's drug cases for four years
before the allegations led to his being
placed on unpaid leave last August.
Craig Tank of Shelby Township,
the judge's former clerk who has ••
since passed his bar exam and now
works in a Pontiac law office, set off
the four-month investigation by the
Michigan State Police and the
Michigan Attorney General's Office.
The 28-year-old Tank accused
Warshawsky of obstruction of
and jury tampering — allegedly
assisting the prosecution in drug
cases and declaring mistrials when
acquittal seemed likely.
After interviewing 30 witnesses,
including prosecutors, defense attor-
neys, current arid former court clerks
and former jurors, and reviewing
tr i al videotape, investigators conclud-
ed in a final report issued Jan. 22
that the allegations had no basis in
fact and were totally unfounded.
The report noted that investigators
learned that Judge Warshawsky had
contacts with the girlfriend of a
defendant, but were satisfied that no
improper inducement was requested
or received.

What's Ahead

Still, Warshaws s troubles may not
be over. The Northern Oakland
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
wants the FBI and the U.S.

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Department of Justice to conduct
their own investigation into whether
Warshawsky excluded minorities
from juries. A message left for Dr.
Eugene Roberts, president of the
chapter, was not returned by press
time.
Warshawsky also still faces a review
of the case by the Judicial Tenure
Commission, a nine-member panel
that reports to the state Supreme
Court.
"Judge Warshawsky, being a lawyer
of 50 years and a judge of 39 years,
is a great believer that in the end, the
truth will win out," said his attorney
Hampton.

In Response

On Wednesday, Oakland County
Prosecutor David Gorcyca told the
Jewish News that the NAACP's
request for another investigation was
"disingenuous."
Gorcyca also said he would refer
Tank's allegations to the'state's
Detroit-based Attorney Grievance
Commission to consider examining
what prompted them. "You cannot,
without impunity, launch such seri-
ous allegations against the character
and integrity of a judge who has
served on the bench for as long as
Judge Warshawsky has, and not be
held accountable," said Gorcyca.
Elbert L. Hatchett, the Pontiac
attorney representing Tank, believes
the investigation of Warshawsky was
inconclusive. Said Hatchett, "The
question that should be asked by all
is why didn't the FBI conduct this
investigation? Over the years, I have
personally represented over 20 judges
on charges ranging from ethical vio-
lations, civil controversies and more
relevant here, criminal investigations
and indictments. In no case involv-
ing criminal charges arising from a
judge's official conduct in office, was
the investigation conducted by any
other agency than the FBI."
Warshawsky, active in South
Haven's Jewish community, was a cir-
clit court judge in Van Buren
County for 20 years before the
Michigan Supreme Court appointed
him to the Oakland County post. El

