广播电视英语短句 第 346 课：法官选举-3

Justice Brent Benjamin -- now chief justice -- voted to overturn a fifty million dollar judgment against the Massey Coal Company. 布伦特.本杰明法官，即现首席法官，投票从而否决了对梅西煤矿公司五千万美元的判决。

Massey's chairman had spent three million dollars to help elect him to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. 梅西公司董事长耗资三百万美元，帮助他当选为西弗吉尼亚州最高上诉法院法官。

That was after the company lost a jury trial over a business dispute. 那是发生在该公司一次由陪审团审案的商业纠纷失利之后。

Justice Benjamin refused to remove himself from Massey's appeal and cast the deciding vote. 本杰明法官拒绝从梅西上诉案中回避，并投了决定票。

The reason he gave for not recusing himself was that there was no financial gain for him in making his decision. 其提出没有回避的理由是他在所作决定中没有经济获益。