The courtroom bailiff for Michigan state judge Wade McCree claims that the judge sent her a shirtless picture of himself by text message. Sound wildly inappropriate? The woman's husband thought so when he found the photos, and he filed a complaint with the state's Judicial Tenure Commission.
A local Fox reporter in Detroit went to Judge McCree and showed him the photo. "Hot dog, yep that's me," said the judge. "I've got no shame in my game. I ain't talked to nobody else's wife."
When the reporter asks the judge (watch the crazy video) whether he sent the photo to other women as well, the judge added, "Oh yeah, I've sent that out to other women, sure."
"And that's alright with your wife?"
"Uh... you know, I mean... There's nothing nude about it. I am in no more clothes than I'll be at the Y this afternoon when I swim my mile."
McCree—also married—comes from a famous legal family. His father, Wade McCree Jr. served as the first African-American judge on the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and in 1977 became the US solicitor general under President Jimmy Carter. At McCree Jr.'s death, a colleague on the Sixth Circuit remembered the judge (PDF) as a towering intellect with a "remarkable memory" whose "ability to recite poetry and song lyrics, both familiar and obscure, was legendary." McCree Jr. even relieved tension among his colleagues with "bits of doggerel" or a "hastily written limerick."
Sexy texting also played a key role in the scandal that brought down Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick back in 2008. In both cases, the use of digital devices meant that the texts and images left the texter's control. While simple communications tech makes affairs, indiscretions, and harassment easier than ever, it also makes them harder to hide in the end.
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