Posted on 06/08/2021 2:17:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Vasquez had been in either prison or a state hospital since 1995, when he pleaded no contest to multiple counts of child molestation, court records show. He allegedly lured several children between the ages of 6 and 8 to an alleyway in South L.A. with the promise of candy, where he performed oral sex on three of the boys and forced one to perform oral sex on him, court records show.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. But in 2000, L.A. County prosecutors sought to have him committed to a state hospital under California’s sexually violent predator act. The law — which was drafted in response to complaints about supposedly short sentences for sex offenders — allows prosecutors to seek to have defendants committed to treatment for an indeterminate amount of time if they have been convicted of a serious or violent sex offense, suffer from a mental illness and are highly likely to reoffend.
But Vasquez never received a trial date. Over the course of 17 years, five different public defenders rotated on and off his case, each asking to push back the trial so they could review the voluminous discovery in the case. L.A. County Superior Court Judge James Bianco disqualified the public defender’s office from the case in late 2017, and early the next year, he granted a motion to dismiss the case against Vasquez, ruling his constitutional right to a speedy trial had been violated.
“There was a systemic breakdown of the public defender system,” Bianco said at the time.
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Maybe it’s time to take the Judges to the woodshed.
The parents should be allowed to “deal with” the “judge” and the “public defenders”.
But of course, the Jesters System would be ALL OVER someone who did that...
Was the SVPA passed before he was sentenced or after? It’s unclear to me. I see that he was sentenced in 1995 and the law was passed in 1995. I’d assume the law was passed prior to his sentence, but I’m not sure.
Remove qualified immunity for judges
Which is why the death penalty is the only answer for sexual offenders like this.
Recidivism is way too high and this is the only sure fire way of preventing it.
Additionally, it's not a breakdown of the justice system. There are far too many people involved in cases like this for ALL of them to miss catching it.
This is an inexcusable dereliction of duty by too many people.
Who do you see about an incompetent, mentally ill, corrupt or abusive judge? You can complain about a physician to the state board of medical examiners who license them. You can go to a state licensing agency or the bar that licenses and monitors lawyers. But where do you go to redress a grievance about a judge. Why is this professional class sacrosanct and beyond discipline?
And it could be lawyers purposefully screwing up a case in order to finally get a ruling that this judge gave. It wouldn’t be the first time.
As long as judges have qualified immunity, this stuff happens.
kill it.
Following his trial and conviction, the L.A. County judge needs to be taken to the wood chipper.
The guy should be swinging from a tree branch...
You can complain to the California Judicial Counsel, which has seen fit, in their approximately 70 years of existence to remove right around three judges. So in all those years, all those probably hundreds of thousands of judges, only around three have been bad enough to remove.
Remember this story about the Oklahoma judge using a penis pump while presiding over cases?
https://medium.com/sex-with-a-side-of-quirk/oklahoma-penis-pump-judge-donald-d-thompson-f05923a24b80
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