Number one, is the Texas Supreme Court which continues to
overturn jury verdicts for campaign money.
As far as I’m concerned any judge who takes money from attorneys with
pending cases is a criminal, without qualification. Yet that is Standard Operating Procedure for
Texas Judges because they have to have money to run for election. I would say they should use their own money,
but that would mean only rich people could be judges. Oh wait…
When you think about the 258th Judicial District
Court, the real criminals are more often on the damn bench than in the
gallery. Judge Liz Coker texted one of
the prosecution team members how to examine a witness in a criminal prosecution
and that was barely sufficient to cause her to lose her bench. The prosecuting attorney who received the
message instead of being horrified, this cold calculating bitch thought it was
a great way to take strategic advantage.
And she was disciplined. Yet this
prosecuting attorney, Kaycee Jones, got elected to a bench herself in the 411th!
Guess the ignorant provincials thought this was a heroic service instead of a
blight on our Anglo-Saxon legal system.
Kaycee Jones got voted out yet she still sits as Visiting Judge on the
258th, presiding over the same voters who voted her out of the 411th!
Voted her out presumably because she
messed up again by telling the judge of the 258th, Travis Kitchens,
that a certain defendant on a case Kitchens was presiding over stole her car.
But wait, why did I still find this terrible woman sitting
on the bench, next to the district clerk who never smiles? Yep, there she was,
on the bench, complete with her unrepentant tongue too large for even her piggy
cheeks. And on one day she was presiding
as visiting judge, the only person who objected was a defense attorney who had
an outcry hearing in child rape case. Bet
that objection took .2 seconds to make.
The differences between rural and major city could not be
more apparent. In Montgomery County JP 1
you have a self-aggrandizing judge Wayne L. Mack who wastes everyone’s time
with his insincere patriotic politics. He
has the pledge of allegiance to the Texas and American flag said, which is bad
enough, but he also invites some crazy preacher on a rotating interfaith basis
to offer a prayer. One time I was in
there and it was this little old demure black lady who was mousy and reserved
but boy she really let loose on that prayer like a whirlwind. These scenes are not appropriate decorum. And then there was this jury trial where a panel
of 24 jurors was summoned because a defendant in a civil case paid the jury
fee. The defendant didn’t appear for
trial. But there was a lot of space
reserved on the docket for this, so rather than letting the jury go when I waived
jury trial to try a liquidated claim for under $10,000 when the defendant had
defaulted, the judge kept me and the jury waiting while he went through all
these motions just because jury trials are a great way for judges to meet
voters and impress them with their BS patriotism. And it’s because dumb white conservatives eat
this shit up.
You also have the old school judges and attorneys who need
to get busy and die, taking the old system with them. There’s some judges who preside over their Court
as a Supreme Village Elder, making peace instead of judicial decisions,
crafting solutions they think is best instead of following the law. The other Boomer problem I run into is the “gotcha
lawyer” This is definitely the province of old school good ol’ white boy
courthouse gangism, especially in the ignorant and provincial counties.
Here’s one example of this:
Me: Judge, the defense’s argument that he is making today,
while it is meritorious, it is the first time we are hearing about it because
the defendant did not include this allegation in his answer. In fact, if you read the defense’s answer it
actually makes a frivolous argument which defendant is not insisting on today,
just to throw us off the scent. We can
amend our case to meet these arguments”
OC: Judge, I have included this argument in my answer. You can interpolate it from the vague
generalizations that I have thrown in there.
There’s no surprise here.” He shouted
shrilly.
The Court: I’m going to deny your motion without leave to
amend and jettison this case in violation of the Texas Rule against general
demurrers. I’m also going to ignore the
special exceptions procedure as set out in the Rules. Good luck on appeal, son.
OC: Gotcha.
This is entitled boomer white trash stuff. Go take that discovery trial by surprise shit
to your ever-nearing grave where it should stay buried. This why local boys do better in provincial counties,
cause they contribute to the judge’s campaigns.
Yeah, there’s a lot of problems. It’s not just race. Unqualified judges on the bench is bad no
matter what, but we shouldn’t be afraid to explain why that happens, even if we
don’t like the explanation, and even if that explanation is race.
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