The complaint also charges Todd with abuse of power for banning a Birmingham prosecutor from her courtroom and holding him in contempt of court. In that matter, Todd emailed the sheriff requesting increased security in her courtroom, claiming that the prosecutor had “unpredictable mood swings” and that his insistence on appearing in her courtroom “demonstrates willful disregard or mental instability.” She also emailed the district attorney about the prosecutor’s subpar performance in a pair of rape cases in which defendants charged with raping Black victims were acquitted. She then said that a court observer and several lawyers had remarked to her that the prosecutor’s behaved confrontationally towards her because she is a Black woman.