James Brown judge will stay on

The judge overseeing the debacle surrounding James Brown's will has refused to step down from the case. As previously reported, Judge Jack Early has been accused by two former trustees of the late Brown's estate of exercising "improper judicial influence" in allegedly forcing them to step down from their positions in relation to the trust. Buddy Dallas and Alford Bradley have asked for their resignations as trustees to Brown's estate to be overturned because, they say, they only resigned because of Early's recommendation, a recommendation they now believe the judge should not have made. The two trustees stood down after a third trustee, David Cannon, was accused of misappropriating funds - Dallas and Bradley, some with interests in Brown's will argued, should have prevented Cannon from acting inappropriately in his handling of Brown's affairs. Responding to Dallas and Bradley's claims, Early firstly refused to have their resignations set aside, and then said he saw no reason for he himself to step away from the case. He added: "I would never force anyone to do anything, that's not me".