(Public Defender) Attorney accused of improper sexual behavior with inmate (in the Jail)
Sun Hearld ^ | Fri, Aug. 25, 2006 | Associated Press
MADISON, Miss. - A Madison County public defender, who also was a one-time municipal court judge in Ridgeland, has been accused of having inappropriate sexual behavior with a female inmate at the county detention center.
Walter Wood, 52, was arrested Wednesday on two counts of disorderly conduct, said Sheriff Toby Trowbridge. The charges are misdemeanors.
Wood was freed on bond on $5,000. No trial date has been set.
Trowbridge said that following a meeting between the 32-year-old inmate and Wood last week, "we had reason to believe that there might be some inappropriate behavior between attorney Walter Wood and his client in the interview room of the detention center."
After their meeting, the woman was interviewed by sheriffs deputies and accused Wood of sexual misconduct, he said.
Trowbridge could not say why the woman was in jail but said she was being held for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.
Asked if she wanted to press charges, the woman agreed and subsequently filed two affidavits against Wood in justice court, each representing one instance of misconduct, Trowbridge said. |
