NewsChannel 5 investigations of Judge Casey Moreland, which go back more than a decade, appear in the latest government filing that argues he should be kept behind bars.
Among them: investigations that revealed his involvement in fixing traffic tickets and the use of court employees to work around his house.
"While these latter episodes, standing alone, would not amount to obstruction of justice, they are part and parcel a clear pattern of Moreland being willing to flout the law for his own benefit," prosecutors said in their memorandum in support of their motion to detain Moreland.
Read the government's memorandum
Moreland was arrested Tuesday morning by FBI agents on charges that he attempted to obstruct their investigation into his conduct.
In 2006, a NewsChannel 5 investigation exposed ticket fixing in the General Sessions Court.
Moreland, who was then the presiding judge, admitted that he had dismissed tickets as favors to police officers who wanted to help out their friends.
Moreland had dismissed a speeding ticket for then House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, as well as every other person who appeared on the same docket as Naifeh.
Then, in 2009, another NewsChannel 5 investigation exposed Moreland allowing his court officers to goof off on taxpayer time.
Our hidden cameras even caught a court officer working at Moreland's house.
He later admitted that he had received a private reprimand from the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary, which was the entity that regulated the ethical conduct of Tennessee lawyers at the time.
In 2014, Moreland received a public reprimand from the state's Board of Judicial Conduct for his role in securing the early release of developer David Chase after his arrest on domestic violence charges.
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