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JUDGES RECUSE THEMSELVES FROM SHOPLIFTING CASES TIED TO FORMER SEN. ALTING
Two Tippecanoe County judges today recused themselves from a pair of misdemeanor cases of theft a special prosecutor filed this week against former state Sen. Ron Alting and his alleged accomplice in a string of shoplifting incidents at a Walmart on Lafayette’s east side.
In a joint order issued Thursday, Nov. 12, Tippecanoe Superior Court 5 Judge Kristen McVey recused herself and asked to have a special judge appointed to Alting’s case. Tippecanoe Superior Court 7 Judge Dan Moore did the same in the case of Pam Krammes, a Mulberry woman charged in four of the six incidents alleged in charges against Alting.
McVey and Moore asked the Indiana Supreme Court to appoint a special judge to the cases “to avoid any appearance of impropriety and/or impartiality given said Senator’s longstanding interactions with the local community, local community leaders, and local political institutions and subdivisions including the Courts.”
“The case involves co-defendants including a local, (soon to be) former State Senator who is well known in the community and by the local bench and said Senator’s paramour,” the order signed by McVey and Moore said. “A special prosecutor has already been sought and assigned to both cases.”
