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> In Texas, a judge burst in on jurors deliberating the case of a woman charged with sex trafficking and declared that God told him the defendant was innocent.
by orf 6y ago
> In Texas, a judge burst in on jurors deliberating the case of a woman charged with sex trafficking and declared that God told him the defendant was innocent. The offending judge received a warning and returned to the bench. The defendant was convicted after a new judge took over the case.
> In Indiana, three judges attending a conference last spring got drunk and sparked a 3 a.m. brawl outside a White Castle fast-food restaurant that ended with two of the judges shot. Although the state supreme court found the three judges had “discredited the entire Indiana judiciary,” each returned to the bench after a suspension.
> In Utah, a judge texted a video of a man’s scrotum to court clerks. He was reprimanded but remains on the bench.
Damn.
- js2 6y agoHere's the Indiana one if you want some more color: > Back in May, three Indiana judges got into a fight. It was the crescendo of an incident brimming with colorful details: a gaggle of judges drinking the night before a judicial conference, a failed attempt to visit a strip club called the Red Garter, a brawl in the parking lot of an Indianapolis White Castle. > The altercation apparently started sometime after 3 a.m., when one of the judges, Sabrina Bell, raised a middle finger at two men yelling from a passing SUV, and ended after one of those men shot two of the judges. ... > Bell "was intoxicated enough that she lacks any memory of the incident." ... > The court says its penalties are designed "not primarily to punish a judge, but rather to preserve the integrity of and public confidence in the judicial system" and, when necessary, to remove those who are unfit. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/779339897/3-indiana-judges-suspended-after-white-castle-brawl-that-left-2-of-them-wounded https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/779339897/3-indiana-judges-su...
- Kinrany 6y agoThis actually sounds... better? The initial line read like the judges shot each other. Did they even break any laws? Getting too drunk to visit a strip club and raising a middle finger to someone is not what I expected to be among the worst examples.