1. Charles Graddick later served as a judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court of the US state of Alabama.
11 Facts About Charles Graddick
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In 1970, Charles Graddick obtained his Juris Doctor from the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, having been chosen the class president.
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Charles Graddick, who served as Alabama's Attorney General from 1979 to 1987, has always been a proponent of the tough on crime mindset and lengthy sentences.
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Charles Graddick wrote Alabama's infamous habitual offender law, which punishes people with a life sentence for drug and property crimes.
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Charles Graddick made a career using inflammatory rhetoric about people in the criminal justice system.
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Charles Graddick won by almost ten thousand votes, but the state Democratic party ruled that he had violated a party rule by encouraging Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary.
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Subsequently, Republican Governor Bob Riley appointed Charles Graddick to fill the post left vacant when Judge William McDermott of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court died in office in May 2004.
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Charles Graddick was elected in January 2005 to serve a six-year term in the same post.
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Charles Graddick was selected by his fellow circuit judges to serve as the presiding judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit until his retirement in 2017.
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In 2011, Charles Graddick declared his candidacy for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, in the Republican primary held on March 13,2012.
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In September 2019, Charles Graddick was appointed by Governor Kay Ivey to lead the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles as the Director of the agency.