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Juvenile Court Judge Resigns Amid Troubled Past
Posted on Jan 26, 2009
Published: January 26, 2009
WYTHEVILLE -- A juvenile court judge in southwest Virginia who was convicted in several driving cases last year, including a hit-and-run in Powhatan County, has resigned his position.
M. Keith Blankenship, 44, of Wytheville resigned Dec. 31.
Blankenship pleaded guilty in August to misdemeanor hit-and-run for an April incident in which police said he swerved off the right side of a Powhatan County road and plowed into a telephone-line box before crossing over to the left side of the road and uprooting a tree.
Blankenship also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor reckless driving after he was pulled over on Interstate 81 in Smyth County March. He was originally charged with driving under the influence in that case.
A former Wythe County commonwealth's attorney and Smyth County assistant prosecutor, Blankenship had been a judge in the 27th District since July 2005 in what was supposed to have been a 6-year term.
-- Media General News Service
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