Comments on: California Wants to ‘Out’ Judges https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/27/california-wants-to-out-judges/ Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:08:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rex The Wonder Dog! https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/27/california-wants-to-out-judges/#comment-15334 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:08:07 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26423#comment-15334 Frega was disbarred, but then went to work for Milberg Wiess as a “paralegal”. My friend was fired from Milberg over this, b/c Frega was doing lawyer work and he was disbarred.

Milberg was the nations TOP class action litigation firm, and Bill Learch ran the class actions out of the San Diego office (they sued Enron for Calpers), and then the Mileberg Weiss firm was indicted and Bill Lerach was disbarred too!

]]> By: Rex The Wonder Dog! https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/27/california-wants-to-out-judges/#comment-15333 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:05:35 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26423#comment-15333 Yes, all the judges went to jail. But they got sweatheart deals.

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/30/local/me-9846

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-04-23/news/mn-61742_1_public-defender

]]> By: Philip R. Carrizosa https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/27/california-wants-to-out-judges/#comment-15332 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:22:36 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26423#comment-15332 The problem with this blog post, and the original story in The Weekly Standard, is that judges are NOT required to answer the question. While the Administrative Office of the Courts is statutorily required to ask the question, judges are free not to answer it, just as they can refuse to answer questions about their ethnicity. If the writer had checked the facts with me as spokesperson for the AOC, he would have learned the truth.

]]> By: Beelzebub https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/27/california-wants-to-out-judges/#comment-15331 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:22:01 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26423#comment-15331 “But the judges did do jail time”

Are you sure, rex? I recall a huge public outcry because none of the judges went to jail. They were removed from the bench – but I do not recall any jail time.

Btw, what happened to Atty Frega?

]]> By: Rex The Wonder Dog! https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/27/california-wants-to-out-judges/#comment-15330 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:39:01 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26423#comment-15330 .I remember several years ago when a group of San Diego Superior Court judges were thrown off the bench for doing exactly that. To my recollection not one of them went to jail either. A crime of that magnitude should get a minimum mandatory 10 years.

Yep and the attorney who bribed them was Pat Frega. But the judges did do jail time. There funny part was that one for the judges was married (to another judge) and the wife had million’s, so get get a free lawyer the judge divorced him wife-but they kept living together, so he could get a free public defender.

]]> By: Rex The Wonder Dog! https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/27/california-wants-to-out-judges/#comment-15329 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:39 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26423#comment-15329 <b.I remember several years ago when a group of San Diego Superior Court judges were thrown off the bench for doing exactly that. To my recollection not one of them went to jail either. A crime of that magnitude should get a minimum mandatory 10 years.

Yep and the attorney who bribed them was Pat Frega. But the judges did do jail time. There funny part was that one for the judges was married (to another judge) and the wife had million’s, so get get a free lawyer the judge divorced him wife-but they kept living together, so he could get a free public defender.

]]> By: Beelzebub https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/27/california-wants-to-out-judges/#comment-15328 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:57:17 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26423#comment-15328 Nothing irritates me more than when one judge overturns the vote of the people. The last example of that was when one gay judge overturned Prop 8. No one judge should have that power. Naturally that ruling made him a superstar and hero within his little social circle. I heard about several judges caught fixing tickets for friends and relatives. That might seem insignificant but if they were willing to cross that line what’s to stop them from taking a payoff from a civil attorney to throw a trial by manipulating the rules on evidence? I remember several years ago when a group of San Diego Superior Court judges were thrown off the bench for doing exactly that. To my recollection not one of them went to jail either. A crime of that magnitude should get a minimum mandatory 10 years. If we can’t trust the judges in our courtrooms we don’t live in a civilized society.

]]> By: Rex The Wonder Dog! https://calwatchdog.com/2012/02/27/california-wants-to-out-judges/#comment-15327 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:46:31 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=26423#comment-15327 Here is the problem with saying you want judges to “just follow the constitution”. There is a ton of room for interpretation of it. You can justify just about any position based on your ideology.

I have seen FAR MORE conservative judges mis apply, engage in judicial activism than liberal judges in the last 25 years, really the last 30 years-since Ronnie Raygun.

We have our rights chipped away little by little every year, and the protections are getting thinner and thinner. That is from conservative judges for the most part. Citizens United is a great example.

But the liberal side also has their bad cases-like Kelo v City of New London where a muni was allowed to take PRIVATE PROPERTY and sell it to a developer. That is about as bad a case as you can get that allows connected people to get by-cronyism at its finest.

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