A 52-year-old could be faced with charges of professional misconduct after she had reportedly had sex with an inmate. Lisa Traylor-Wolff is an attorney and senior part-time judge who works in Indiana's Pulaski and Fulton counties, reported Isciencetimes.com.
She allegedly had sex with a inmate who is half her age in an interview room while he was in prison. The Daily Mail reported that the Commission on Judicial Qualification in Indian said that she started a "physically intimate relationship with a 26-year-old client."
"The defendant was eventually convicted and sentenced to the Department of Correction," A statement issued on Tuesday by the Indiana Supreme Court said. "Traylor-Wolff continued representing the client on appeal. The commission alleges she began a romantic relationship with the client while representing him. The commission also alleges inappropriate conduct occurred when Traylor-Wolff and the client were in an attorney-client visitation room at the Miami Correctional Facility."
The Daily Mail reported that their relationship continued after he was sentenced to prison and Traylor-Wolff was his representative when he appealed. She did not ask for her judgeship to be renewed and she has 20 days to file a response or her case will go to the Indiana Supreme Court.
"She is formally accused of violating four rules of professional conduct, including restrictions that prohibits a lawyer from having sexual relations with a client, prohibits a lawyer from representing a client if there is a significant risk that the representation will be materially limited by a personal interest of the lawyer, and requires a judge to promote confidence in the integrity of the judiciary and to avoid impropriety," reported The Daily Mail.
At one time she was a Superior Court judge in Pulaski County and the head of the Bar Association in her county.
If she is found guilty the court coud bar her from having a judicial office I the state. Isciencetimes.com reported she allegedly committed the sex act at the Miami Correctional Facility in Peru, Indiana.
"Only the five members of the Supreme Court can determine what, if any, allegations are true," the statement added.
Isciencetimes.com reported that the commission also alleged that Traylor-Wolff violated a part of the code of conduct "which prohibits judges from engaging in activities that would appear to undermine the judge's independence, integrity or impartiality."
Traylor-Wolff graduated from Ball State University in 1982 with a Bachelors degree and from Valparaiso School of Law in 1986.
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