High Point attorney and former judicial candidate Joe Floyd has been cleared of domestic violence breaking and entering charges filed by a former girlfriend.
Floyd abandoned his campaign to become a Guilford County Superior Court judge when the charges came to light last summer, but he resumed his campaign in October, only to lose in the November election.
Update: Roch Smith points out Floyd was not charged with domestic violence, as stated in the original hed; he was charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering; the “judge found credible Floyd’s explanation of what happened before he was arrested and charged with breaking into Cannon’s home — he said he often used a spare key left outside to come and go as he pleased and Cannon had not told him otherwise.”
The N&R reported the “court has cleared Floyd, a High Point attorney, of wrongdoing involving claims of domestic violence and harassment by a former girlfriend.” Floyd was under a protection order filed by Ashley Cannon, “who claimed that Floyd previously had hit her and sent threatening texts to her cell phone.”
Judge Christy Mann also dismissed the protection order.
