Ex-Judge Pleads Guilty to Fleeing Law
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A former judge convicted of sexually assaulting five women in his small-town courthouse pleaded guilty to running from authorities to avoid prison. David Lanier, 63, told U.S. District Judge Jerome Turner he made a “bad judgment call” in August when he went on the lam. He was captured two months later in Mexico, where he was living under an assumed name. Lanier was convicted in 1992 of assaulting women who had legal matters before him or worked at the Dyersburg courthouse, where he was a Chancery Court judge.
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