Judge Edward Nottingham, already under investigation by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals following allegations of improper conduct involving strip clubs, is also being investigated for his behavior after parking in a disabled space, 9News reported Sunday night.
Denver attorney Jeanne Elliott, who was paralyzed in 1986 after being shot four times during a court hearing in the Arapahoe County Courthouse, says she pulled her wheelchair behind an illegally parked SUV at the Walgreens at Race Street and East Colfax Avenue on Sept. 15. She wanted to find out who had taken the handicapped spot.
She told 9News reporter Paula Woodward that the driver got in the car and started to back up toward her, but she didn’t move. The driver said, “Get out of my way,” and identified himself as a federal judge and threatened to call the U.S. Marshals Service.
Elliott still didn’t move, 9News reported, and Nottingham called 911.
A written statement issued by his attorneys said Nottingham “regrets parking in a handicapped space in his haste to pick up a prescription at a local Walgreens, but respectfully disagrees with the remainder of Ms. Elliott’s version of this incident.”
Nottingham paid a $100 parking fine.
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