Kanawha County Prosecutor Mark
Plants says the state Supreme Court should reject the recommendations from the
state Office of Disciplinary Counsel that he be suspended or stopped from
prosecuting domestic-related cases.
Plants filed a response to the
ODC’s recommendations Friday. The ODC made the recommendations because
Plants faces two misdemeanor charges including allegedly violating a domestic
violence protective order along with a charge of domestic battery in connection
with spanking his son.
In that response filing–Plants
called the ODC’s recommendations an overreach and premature. The response
points toward a move made this week by Plants and his assistants to alert the
circuit court of any possible conflicts of interest in domestic violence cases.
Plants has been arrested twice in
recent months and both times released on his own recognizance. Plants says that
shows a lack of seriousness of the charges.
Kanawha County Circuit Judge Duke Bloom is scheduled to hold a
hearing Tuesday on the City of Charleston
