No doubt you’ve heard by now that controversial Forsyth County District Attorney Tom Keith is retiring next week. The Winston-Salem Journal bids him adieu, saying Keith “can be, by turns, charmingly open and frustratingly stubborn.” The Journal also believes Keith should have recognized that the Daryl Hunt case had been bungled by his predecessor and that he also needed to show a little more enthusiasm for Silk Plant Forest case, where Calvin Smith still sits in prison for the brutal beating of Jill Marker.

It should be little surprise then that Keith is in the news again, asking a judge in Forsyth Superior Court to appeal a decision made by District Court Judge Laurie Hutchins that reduced speeding charges on a driver going 122 mph on Interstate 40.

Hutchins fired back, however, comparing Keith to disgraced former prosecutor Mike Nifong.