Judge Lopez takes tough style to TV

Boston Globe ^ | September 9, 2006 | Christopher Muther

[ConservativeStatement]

Former Massachusetts Superior Court judge Maria Lopez has a message for her detractors -- especially the local politicians and attorneys who criticized her outspoken behavior on the bench and the sentence of parole she handed down to Charles ``Ebony" Horton for kidnapping and assaulting a child in 2000.

Thank you.

If there had been no public outcry over Lopez barking at prosecutors, there is a good chance that the judge would have missed the opportunity to become what she calls ``the poster child for the post-menopausal woman" as the star of ``Judge Maria Lopez," a nationally syndicated daytime court show that debuts Monday on WSBK-TV (Channel 38).

``I used to regret having lost my temper at that prosecutor, but now I don't," she says in her throaty smoker's voice. ``In fact, I should probably send thank-you notes to these people. If not for all the things that happened to me, I wouldn't be here today."

[ConservativeStatement]

Again, the inept get rewarded.

[Diogenesis]

Lopez encouraged child rape using a screwdriver for a threat
which was A-OK because the perp was transsexual (and a subscriber to
Lopez's and her husband's newspaper).

No wonder she is fawned upon by the MSM and the DNC.

[sandra_789]

Sounds like par for the course with what is left of TV today.

[raccoonradio]

Herald article (and link to Lowell Sun article in the posts afterward)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1698265/

[raccoonradio]

oops--guess I shouldn't have deleted the "posts" part of the URL!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1698265/posts

[ConservativeStatement]

I saw a preview (adv.) of the TV show; she should seek radio or print journalism instead. :-)