A federal judge in Rome has dismissed a civil rights suit against a former Murray County magistrate judge, finding that he was entitled to judicial immunity even though his conduct was “distasteful and inappropriate.”
U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy dismissed the ex-magistrate, Bryant Cochran, from the suit, which claimed that Cochran had solicited sexual favors from a woman who had sought the judge’s help in securing arrest warrants for three people who had attacked her.
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