{"id":3336,"date":"2018-04-02T07:03:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2018-04-02T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T17:49:58","slug":"camiletti-crockett-redding-in-race-to-fill-seat-vacated-by-judge-gray-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3336","title":{"rendered":"Camilletti Crockett Redding in Race to Fill Seat Vacated by Retirement of Judge Gray Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Judge Gray Silver retired late last year, the race was on to fill his seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d6ZNK7XE1Cg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three candidates emerged \u2013 Steven Redding, Kimberly Crockett and David Camilletti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February, Governor Jim Justice appointed Redding to the seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But he holds it only until May 8, when the citizens of Morgan, Berkeley and Jefferson counties will decide who will replace Silver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crockett thinks it&#8217;s unfair for the Governor to be able to fill a vacancy so close to the election. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe fairest approach would be not to appoint anyone,\u201d Crockett told Russell Mokhiber of This Week in Morgan County. \u201cEarly voting begins April 25. It was an attempt to put partisan politics into an election that was supposed to be non-partisan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crockett spent years as a prosecutor in the Eastern Panhandle before opening her own law firm in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was surprised when I became a prosecutor,\u201d Crockett said. \u201cIt was not on my path. I thought that when I finished my clerkship, I would open my own practice. That is what I had in my mind to do. But I got a call from the Berkeley County prosecutor offering me a position. I ended up working in her office quite by accident. It was a good experience, but it was one that wasn\u2019t part of my plan. In the back of my mind, I had always thought that I would open my own practice. With encouragement from my husband and my kids, I finally decided to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are there politics involved with the choice of being a prosecutor or not?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen you take the oath of office, you pledge to seek justice in all cases,\u201d Crockett said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cProsecutors have a bad rap for wanting to seek the death penalty or the harshest outcomes for all cases. My experience with prosecutors is that they are fair minded. They try to seek justice. They try to reach outcomes that are good for the community. Punishment maybe is promoted. But sentiment of the public, the victims and defendants has been a part of those considerations.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hYT9R5jWSxs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why should voters vote for Kimberly Crockett over Steve Redding or David Camilletti?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m more experienced than both of them,\u201d Crockett said. \u201cI\u2019ve known them both for years. Steve Redding came to out community in 2011. Camilletti came here from Wheeling and has been here a long time. He\u2019s an institution in our area. But I\u2019m different. My philosophy is to apply impartially the law to the facts using sound discretion and to not legislate from the bench.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have litigation and trial experience that exceeds Mr. Redding,\u201d Crockett said. \u201cI have filed appeals before the West Virginia Supreme Court. I have argued those appeals. Having that experience brings value to the decision making process. Part of trial work is making decisions on the fly. And my experience is greater than either of the other candidates in that regard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Camilletti is a family court judge. He ran for judge in 2000 and lost to Gray Silver by 30 votes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGray took Morgan County by 50 votes, turning the tide,\u201d Camilletti said. \u201cI contested it, but didn\u2019t gain 30 votes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Camilletti was appointed to be a family court judge in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI certainly have more experience than my opponents,\u201d Camilletti said. \u201cThey are fine people. And I know of no disability they would have to prevent them from taking the job. But I have been practicing twice as long as they have, in more areas of the law and with a deeper practice, being a solo practitioner and a generalist. I took pretty much anything that walked in the door. I might be doing a heavy criminal case one day and a divorce the next day and an abuse and neglect the day after that. And I might be in three counties in one day, which I have done in the last 25 years. And I am a judge. And I have been a judge for two and a half years. That is something that I have that they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Redding did not respond to messages seeking an interview.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Judge Gray Silver retired late last year, the race was on to fill his seat. Three candidates emerged \u2013 Steven Redding, Kimberly Crockett and David Camilletti. In February, Governor Jim Justice appointed Redding to the seat. But he holds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=3336\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}