Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance v. Shoemake

¶ 54. Today the majority finds that Chancellor David Shoemake’s negligence and inattention resulted in the dissipation of assets' from Victoria Newsome’s estate. The majority fines Chancellor Shoemake $2,500 and suspends 'him from office for a period of thirty days without pay. Yet the majority does not account for the fact that Chancellor Shoemake’s negligence and inattention cost Victoria Newsome, an incapacitated 'Ward of the court, at least $23,000 that she is unable to recuperate. Becaus'e I believe that Chancellor Shoemake should be required to make Victoria’s estate whole in addition…