Posted on 06/04/2014 6:33:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Strike one for the little guy, judge.
With your fists, in his face.
Anyway, that’s what one Florida judge did to a public defender. He took him out back and gave him a butt whipping.
In the face, with his fists.
With lawyers it’s the same thing as a butt whipping, because most of them are all ass anyway. They are 100% certified USDA ass.
“A Florida judge allegedly punched a public defender after the two stepped outside the courtroom to settle a beef,” reports the New York Daily News. “The brawl erupted after Judge John Murphy began to argue with the lawyer, Andrew Weinstock, in a Brevard County courtroom just outside of Orlando on Monday.”
“You know, if I had a rock, I would throw it at you right now,” the judge told the attorney before punching him out. The episode was aired live on TV.
Look, to be honest, I’m not condoning violence against lawyers.
I’m applauding it.
My father was a lawyer, my brother is a lawyer.
And I never, ever punched them.
Well, maybe my brother.
But if you dig into what’s wrong with America, you’ll find a lawyer at the bottom of every dung heap.
That label on coffee that tells us the contents are “hot”?
A lawyer gave us that.
That twelve page rental car agreement?
Lawyers.
Sexual reassignment surgery in the military on the taxpayers’ dime?
More lawyers.
If it weren’t for lawyers you’d never have heard of Rev. Al Sharpton.
Bill Clinton, lawyer; Hillary Clinton, lawyer; Barack Obama, lawyer; John Edwards, lawyer.
And those are just the famous ones.
Right now in your hometown there are likely dozens of them overbilling clients, making and breaking promises, conspiring with the opposing counsel to the keep the billing going until the money is gone.
I’m thinking of one guy right now, locally where I live—a “conservative” mind you—who cheated one woman out of mid six figures when she would have been better off representing herself.
He’s the type of guy that a used car lot wouldn’t hire.
After all, there are standards in most other professions.
But not with lawyers.
Lawyers look for problems, lawyers make problems worse, and in only the most heinous of cases does a lawyer get reprimanded.
So let’s just say that I’m hoping a legal precedent was started here with Judge Murphy.
Because while judges are lawyers themselves, they have to clear a docket after all.
They have to produce something.
So judges are free to pass over the hypocrisy of a legal system that rewards lawyers for producing nothing.
And if you think that sounds a lot like Washington, you’re right.
That’s why we have too many lawyers in DC, and that’s why they produce so little.
Kind of a chicken-and-egg scenario with the chicken billing the egg by the hour.
And before you accuse me of lawyer hate, let me remind you that it was William Shakespeare who penned the line: “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.''
I don’t want lawyers to die. Too many lawsuits would result.
What I’m advocating is something more akin to tough love.
With a fist, in their face.
By a judge.
And yes, I’m thinking of a few lawyers right now.
Quick! I need to call a judge.
This judge needs to have his robes taken away along with his title. If he cannot control his courtroom without resorting to a fist fight he his a sorry excuse for not only a judge but a person too.
He should be removed from the bench and disbarred. The defense atty should be investigated for accepting the invitation Furthermore, A&B should absolutely be on the table.
There is no problem a lawyer can’t make worse.
i work for two lawyers (brothers), and they are two of the finest gentlemen i have ever come to know... apparently their late father was their example... kind, generous, good-natured... their mother is a judge, their late grandmother was a state senator... unpretentious people...
I’m with the judge on this one. Who does the defense lawyer think he is, demanding that his client’s right to a speedy trial be upheld?
99% of the lawyers give the other 1% a bad name.
AMEN! That is so true. Mr. Beachy says, and I agree, that many couples could probably arrange a peaceful divorce...except for lawyers. Or how about law suits? Many people would allow the insurance company handle a simple accident...except for lawyers.
So many people don't realize how lawyers run this country. They make the laws, interpret the laws, and change them when they want. A liberal BIL believes that a lawyer is the only one smart enough to run our country. I think he forgot that not all of the Founding Fathers were lawyers.
and if you did not say this you would be sued! : )
All the reports on this topic never state what the case was about.
A few years back,here in Florida, a man was held in jail over a year, awaiting trial for charges relating to the death of his daughter.
Turns out the daycare center killed her, and he was finally released, never having been tried, after another child was murdered in the same way, by the same daycare center.
Yeah, why would anyone accused of any crime demand their right to a speedy trial? /sarcasm//
Isn't the onus on the government to prove guilt?
Yes, sarcasm. I suppose it’s a sign of the times that a tag is needed I’m sure the author of this piece wouldn’t, be so glib about a defendant’s rights if it was his ass in the dock.
Times have changed.
Any anonymous accusation of a serious crime can land anyone in the USA in a jail cell, at the mercy of a blatantly corrupt legal system.
Got money?
Pay the government legal system union/mafia employee bureaucrats the extortion fees they, and their relatives have come to rely on, to “get out of jail” while awaiting “trial”.
The jails all need to be filled to overflowing, lest anyone accuse the busy, underfunded “legal system” of systemic corruption.
I can't get that man's innocent face out of my memory.
He lost his baby daughter by murder, he lost his wife, his job, and spent over a year of his life incarcerated, and his personal freedom and reputation is gone forever...because his ass was put in a jail cell for the convenience of a corrupt government legal system that is now known to be entirely dysfunctional at every level. There, but for random chance, go I! I say FIRE THAT JUDGE!
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