Kentucky Senate to hold impeachment hearing

KENTUCKY — The Kentucky Senate will maintain an impeachment listening to for Legal professional Ronnie Lee Goldy, Jr. on March 21 and March 22. 

The prosecutor is going through attainable impeachment over allegations that he promised a defendant favors in court docket for nude pictures of her has submitted his resignation. He resigned Feb. 28. 

The Courier Journal first reported in July the lots of of Fb messages that had been exchanged between Goldy and the defendant, who testified that the messages have been genuine. Goldy had defended himself by a written response to the Home impeachment committee, saying the messages the girl despatched him have been “an extension of the friendship they’d developed.”

The Kentucky Home of Representatives despatched the Senate the articles of impeachment. After that, lawmakers handed Senate Decision 108, which started the method to plan for Senate impeachment hearings. 

It’s the primary time the Senate will maintain an impeachment listening to and potential trial in 135 years. The final time was in 1888 for State Treasurer “Sincere Dick” Tate, who fled to Brazil with almost $200,000 in state funds. There have been additionally listening to sin 1916 and 1991, however they didn’t go to trial.

“Conducting an impeachment trial within the Senate is uncharted territory for any of us presently residing (in workplace), because the final one occurred over a century in the past,” mentioned Senate President Robert Stivers in a press launch. “In researching find out how to proceed with this course of, we developed a sound, constitutional plan which offers due course of and ensures public workplace integrity.”

The members chosen to sit down on the committee are:

• Sen. Brandon Storm, R-London
• Sen. Lindsey Tichenor, R-Smithfield
• Sen. Gex Williams, R-Verona
• Sen. Jason Howell, R-Murray
• Sen. Michael Nemes, R-Shepherdsville
• Sen. Cassie Chambers Armstrong, D-Louisville
• Sen. Reginald Thomas, D-Lexington

The Related Press contributed to this story.