MANCHESTER, N.H.- The State’s Committee on Judicial Conduct has filed formal charges against Circuit Court Judge Todd Prevett over claims of bias and prejudice for conducting an independent investigation into a guardianship case that was later vacated by the State Supreme Court.
According to 31-page statemement last month the committee filed charges against Judge Prevett who’s currently assigned to the 9th Circuit Court, family division, in Milford over a case he presided over in which a mother was looking regain custody of her daughter and ended up conducting his own investigation during which offiicals say contianted “several expressions of hostility and disdain toward the mother of the child” and “demonstrated bias and prejudice.”
The Committee said Prevett violated the code of judicial conduct for failing to perform his duty without a bias or prejudice. However, despite Prevett’s efforts to deter the mother from regaining custody of her child the State Supreme Court vacated the order and remanded the matter to be considered by a different judge.
Prevette has yet to comment on the matter, with his lawyer saying he will make a formal statement on or before November 18.
