Posted on 05/23/2005 12:00:12 PM PDT by Asphalt
MAY 20--A Florida judge is facing a disciplinary hearing for a host of allegedly inappropriate behavior on the bench, including the recommendation to one female defendant that she "needed to close her legs and stop having babies." In the below notice of charges, the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission alleges that Circuit Judge Richard Albritton, 57, demeaned both defendants and lawyers in his Panama City courtroom. Among the commission's many allegations is the claim that Albritton (pictured at right) once demanded that a teenage mother identify the father of her baby. When the girl declined to answer, Albritton told her that he would "put her back in juvenile detention" if she did not give up the dad's name.
And Judge Greer is still being honored and praised.........
LOL! There are just so many ways this thread could go awry...
Watching and waiting.
Sounds like pretty prudent advice to me.
From reading it, I was thinking he had a Sharon Stone type in his courtroom. :^D
A bit intemperate, but needed to be said.
That's what I'm thinking. Perhaps his manner of communication was deemed inappropriate.
Seems to be the general conclusion. What's done is done.
Florida has the most corrupt democrat-infested judiciary in the USA (along with NY, New Jersey, and the Massachusetts Supremes).
He's the Durke "It takes two to tango!" Thompson of the Florida judiciary.
Well, if nothing else they have nice weather and no income tax. No idea why Rush would want to live there. If he so much as gets a concussion they'll be killing him.
Your Honor Dude, she was just compiling a list of possible suspects in her little mind....
maybe so
Sounds like good advice to me, but then so many people have lost their common sense that when we hear it, it sounds harsh.
It happens. Some judges do get very "high and mighty" and lose their ability to communicate properly that even saying something common sense comes across badly.
One lawyer I used to know told me about a judge she hated. The judge threw her client in prison for smiling in the courtroom (according to the lawyer, her client smiled as a nervous reaction out of like fear or embarrassement, i.e. defence mechanism).
Later on I got a bit more of the story. The client was on trial for threatening her sons girlfriend, taped threats to her, and also liked to smile when she was angry, and smiled at people testifying against her, while nodding at them in a way that could be construed as "I'm going to get you for this".
Different versions of the same thing, get spun differently, and the media will always go with whatever they think is the way it should be and slant the story.
The thought crossed my mind too! LOL
I can't say that I'd always agree with this judge, but for the most part, he seems right on.
Sounds like a sensible judge to me. No wonder they are trying to discipline someone who has wisdom.
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