Good riddance.
Judgement Day for Judge Leslie Lewis
November 6th, 2006 by Cliff
For Utah Judge Leslie Lewis, tomorrow is the day the judge shall be judged.
In a time when judges are seldom removed from their bench, it seems Lewis may have better than average odds of joining the ranks of those few who have been. Falling under very public scrutiny in the last few weeks, the voters in Utah’s 3rd District have more information to base their vote for the judge on and none of it is good. And to add to the recent rash of information on the internet, The Salt Lake Tribune urged readers to vote ‘No’ for her in their November 1st edition.
I wrote about the February incident Lewis was involved in when she had a spectator taken into custody and held in cuffs for 20 minutes for expressing his dislike of her opinion on hunting. I mentioned that it wasn’t the first time she had been in trouble. Judge Lewis is currently being investigated by the Utah Judicial Council and has been on two previous occassions.
Lewis is currently being investigated for reducing the sentence of a convicted sex offender. She apparently discussed the sentencing with the defense in a phone conversation, deciding to reduce the sentence without notifying the prosecution and not following court procedure. This is far cry from the ethical behavior of a judge.
One of the other incidents involved a reporter during a murder trial to whom she was “rude” and “insulting”. The other incident happened when a reporter requested a transcript of a hearing involving a twice convicted child molester who Lewis put on probation. The reporter was reportedly threatened to be arrested for contempt of court. Again, these are behavior very unfitting for a judge.
Lewis has also came under fire for refusing to let a father baptize his eight year old daughter into the LDS Church. The mother had refused while the father wanted the baptism. After saying that it had to be something agreed upon jointly, she added her own experience of baptism at an early age and ruled the girl would decide for herself at the age of twelve.
People, this is clear evidence that Judge Lewis is a joke as a judge. She has let her own personal beliefs play more of a role than what she should as is evident in the case with the hunter and the baptism. She has shown leniency when it comes to convicted sex offenders and child molesters. She has repeatedly had outbursts in her own court which she claims she likes to run with order. To me, that is enough reason that she shouldn’t retain her seat.
It seems Judge Lewis is on the way to being as much of a problem as the people she judges. Now it is up to the voters of Utah’s 3rd district to see if they give her the chance to see if that’s the case. Judgement day is tomorrow, let’s see if the judge likes being judged.
Where is the vid?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp1KKAQCINc
What the hell?
Yet another case of PBMTSS...
(Post Bambis' Mama Traumatic Stress Syndrome)
Bye, bye, Bambi.
Rehab.
Talk about a Barbie on the bench. How did she pass the bar?
The irony. It sounds like a Steven King novel.