PDF: Formal Proceedings – Anthony Peters
Catoosa County officials are investigating whether they can stop paying a county judge who was recently accused of using drugs and making a series of threatening or bizarre complaints.
Magistrate Anthony Peters hasn’t been to work since June, when he was escorted from the Catoosa courthouse in handcuffs after an argument with his boss, Chief Magistrate Donald “Sonny” Caldwell, but he has been paid his $63,000 annual salary, officials said.
Their hands have been tied because, while Peters and Caldwell couldn’t work together, state law prohibits Caldwell from firing Peters, said Chad Young, Catoosa’s county attorney.
But now that the state Judicial Qualifications Commission accused Peters of 13 violations of the judicial code of conduct on Tuesday, officials hope to have the legal leverage to stop paying him, Young said.