BATON ROUGE -- The Louisiana Supreme Court has slammed the last door shut on controversial Jefferson Davis Parish Judge Wendell R. Miller.
The Supreme Court last week refused a request by Miller to reconsider its earlier decision Jan. 26 to force him from the bench. Retired judge Anne Simon will replace Miller pending a special election.
Miller was ordered from office for six "gross violations" of the judicial code of conduct. Five concerned his nine-year affair with his secretary, which ended when she sued him for sexual harassment in 2003.
The Supreme Court found, among other things, that Miller had regular sex with Heather Viator in his chambers, presided over her divorce and ordered her ex-husband to support a child whose paternity is in dispute.
Miller's "rather open and notorious sexual conduct... coupled with the other factors involved in the relationship, clearly brought the judicial office into disrepute," wrote Justice Chet Traylor for the majority opinion.
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