West Virginia judge’s suspension shows need for cameras in courtrooms

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The justices said that, while in court, Watkins shouted profanities at people and threatened litigants. On one occasion, he called a woman seeking a protective order against her husband “stupid,” they said. He told her to shut up and criticized her for “shooting off [her] fat mouth about what happened.”