Judicial Tenure Commission files complaint against Ottawa County judge who hit his wife

Michigan’s judicial tenure committee has filed a public grievance towards a decide of the Ottawa district who has responsible of home violence.

Bradley Knoll, the chief decide of the 58th district court docket in Holland, was sentenced final 12 months to 4 months conditional and anger -control classes after admitting his spouse with an open hand within the head.

In accordance with the grievance from the judicial tenure fee, the incident began within the morning of December 13, 2023, when a younger member of the family of the couple refused to go to highschool.

Knoll grabbed the kid by the face and shouted, mentioned the grievance, and he hit his spouse when she tried to intervene.

The grievance additionally says that after his arrest, Knoll threatened a police officer from Grand Haven and the officer advised that his ass could be in a pendulum for a false arrest “if the general public prosecutor determined to not cut back expenses.

The grievance accuses him of violating Michigan’s judicial conduct by violating the legislation, performing irresponsibly and main itself in a approach that hues the belief of the general public into the judiciary.

Knoll, who continued to carry out his duties as the primary decide of the court docket, didn’t instantly reply to phone and e -mail messages that have been left on Tuesday night.

He has 14 days to answer the grievance, after which the committee will plan a listening to.

The committee itself doesn’t matter, however makes suggestions to Michigan’s Supreme Courtroom.

Relying on the end result of the listening to, the court docket could make public, droop it, droop him, take away him from his workplace or fully reject the case.

As a result of he’s older than 70, Knoll can not run for a judgment in Michigan. His present time period of workplace ends on the finish of 2026.