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Posted on 09/08/2009 11:00:48 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Insulted in Restroom, Texas Judge Jails Court Attendee, 69, for Contempt
Posted 1 hour, 15 minutes ago By Martha Neil
Angry about a Texas judge's ruling in a custody matter involving his granddaughter, Don Bandelman followed the jurist into a public restroom at the Caldwell County courthouse.
Then the 69-year-old called District Judge Jack Robison a fool, reports the American-Statesman.
Bandelman says the judge told him to leave, and he did. But then Robison had his bailiffs arrest Bandelman on the courthouse outside the sidewalk and, without any hearing, sentenced him to a 30-day jail term for contempt, the article continues. After two days in the lock-up, Robison commuted his sentence to time served once Bandelman's wife hired a lawyer to file a habeas petition alleging illegal restraint and an appeals court started asking questions.
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Do not question authority. Do not mock our leaders. They shall smite you and throw you down from a high place if you should raise your voice against them.
Not harsh, illegal. He needs to be removed.
I was not aware that the judge’s authority extended outside of the courtroom. How can you be in contempt of court if there is no court?
What a arrogant jerk this judge is. Personal ego is not supposed to be part of the decision making of a judge. He doesn’t have the demeanor to be a judge.
Contempt of Washroom.
This Judge is in for a world of hurt if this guy sues.
The city/county and the taxpayers are in for a world of hurt if he sues.
These pompous judges have couldn’t care less about blood family. Their agenda is to keep overloading the social workers so taxpayers are overburdened with year after year demands for increases in funding, ‘the need is just getting greater’. That’s because blood family is locked out in favor of government, unionized workers.
Do not question your benevolent leaders! They no better than you.
oh come on freepers.....afterall, he called the judge a “FOOL”....how bad can it get?.../sarcasm/
The way some judges are they might as well hold court in the toilet.
Ping~
Makes ya think the grandfather was correct in his assessment.
Can the judge hold us for contempt for calling him a fool as well? How about Op/Ed’s that agree?
court if there is no court
Maybe this judge is a foot tapper in the bathroom and condsiders bathroom stalls his court.
court if there is no court
Maybe this judge is a foot tapper in the bathroom and condsiders bathroom stalls his court.
We’ll have to wait till Skippy Gates does it to see what happens......and how BO weighs in on it.
/sarc
I don't care if he is a Rep, if the story is true as told he needs to go.
I guess the washroom was in session.
Contempt of Commode.
In almost all cases...judges have immunity from lawsuits. So, this man would probably have a lawsuit thrown out....even though this judge was way out of line
Yes, we need to end judicial immunity. I know South Dakota tried to pass a referendum to end judicial immunity a few years ago....not sure what happened to that.
I doubt taking a leak falls into that category, but who knows...
This is the grandfathers fault. He should have known better. He should have gone by established rules.
Everybody knows that if you’re going to communicate with a judge or politician while in a public rest room, you must first tap your foot and run your fingers along the bottom of the wall of the stall.
Grampa should have been given 3 months in jail.
There was a case here in Tampa several years ago where a judge was on an elevator in the courthouse with a police officer. The judge told the officer to turn the radio off, the chatter was disturbing him. The officer declined and the judge had him arrested for contempt. It’s been a while back and I don’t recall the exact circumstances and the outcome. I remember there being quite a commotion about it in the press, etc.
Judges, some not all, are as bad as Congress critters when it comes to living in a different world.
and then the judge proved him to be 100% accurate in his assessment.
Lucky he didn’t have him executed for not diverting his eyes when he called him a fool /S
And I hope he does and then he needs to ask for another custody hearing too because this incident shows what kind of person this judge is.
Quite an abuse of power if you ask me. I didn’t realize that the Judge’s authority extended to the urinal. I mean, isn’t there a private toilet in the Judge’s chambers? If he keeps using the public toilet in the future, he may end up getting more than a tongue-lashing from a disgruntled attendee.
Interesting article in that this is a rural area and I suspect it is ruled by an iron hand. Caldwell county has a short section about six miles long that crosses I-10 at Luling Texas. On any given day at mile marker 635 going west bound about a 1/2 mile into Caldwell county you top a small hill and there is a possiblity of at least one and maybe more state troopers sitting there shooting radar at the west bound traffic. I”ve seen as many as four in line, the first one gets a hit and pulls out and the next one in line moves up. They usually make the stop within a mile, cross over the ditch back to the feeder road and get back in line.
I’ve often wondered which county/city groups are sanctioning this.
I don’t like lawsuits, but this would be an exception. Sue him.
You know, if you follow the judge who’s handling your granddaughter’s custody case into the crapper, and you tell him that his decision was BS and that he’s a fool...you can say the judge is a hard case if he locks you up for contempt, and you may be right, but that doesn’t make the judge wrong.
Judge has immunity from a civil action in a case like this. He could be disciplined by the CJC, but that’s about it.
He cain't throw 'em in the pokey but he can piss on 'em.
Wow! So you can be in contempt of court when you’re not even IN court. What are they going to do, arrest 80% of the people in the US?
This judge’s bad judgments seem to be part of his DNA. He uses too heavy a hand.
Bandleman made some derogatory remark about “fudge”, Robison thought he said “judge”, and things went downhill from there.
Abuse of power if I ever saw it.
Of course. If a judge in a civil matter orders you to do a certain thing, say return an item of property to somebody, or contact a child psychologist for your kid, and/or make a payment such as a child’s dental bill paymentand/or support payment and/or insurance premium, and gives you thirty days to do whatever all it is you are being ordered to do, and you don’t do it, you can be hauled in on contempt charges, and each failure is a separate court.
Headline: Judge holds grandfather after tongue-lashing
in courthouse restroom...
Authority figures- bureacrats like this judge - have a hard time dealing with real people.
I hope he gets sued and removed from the bench.
Judges have immunity for bad judgment decisions. You can’t sue them. All that can be done is to vote them out of office in jurisdictions where they’re elected, not appointed. You might be able to drum them off the bench through impeachment with ethics and corruption charges, but this is rare.
LOL
As judges. He was not a judge in the washroom.
time to start pitchforks, torches, tar, feathers and lots of rope in very short lengths...
But in this case, at least as presented, the grandfather didn’t fail to do anything the judge told him to do (and we don’t even know if the judge had the authority to tell him to leave the restroom). This is more for literal “contempt”, and it seems to me that with few exceptions, such as during court proceedings, we’re all entitled to have that type of contempt for anyone we want to.
Those cops are being paid to collect revenue for that jurisdiction and the state. If this is all they do all day, then they are not performing their regular patrol and protection duties. The citizens should raise hell with the city council, county supervisors, etc..
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