This poll needs freeped.
These results are where the poll is now:
17% Superior Court
3% Traffic Court
12% Supreme Court
66% No Court at All
We need Freeper help to bring this poll to “Superior Court.”
How can prosecutors legally request taking away a Constitutional right?
Gary Kreep was an energetic activist for conservative causes in Southern California going back to the 1970’s and ‘80’s.
“Most of the Kearny Mesa facility is staffed with court commissioners, who lack the prestige of a judge and are paid $152,000 a year.”
Commissioners are appointed because the judges are too overwhelmed. Judges have to approve their decisions, however, Commissioners still make the decisions at the trial level and get just as much respect. prestige? what a nonsensical term in this context.
in Kreep’s case, he sounds like he was not exactly impartial and exhibited his Public Defender bias too keenly. Still, traffic court is not for the faint of heart, a pro se litigant is capable of causing a lot more trouble than a represented litigant whose attorney knows the drill. And the variety of cases and litigants is pretty broad. It can be a lot more work than a higher level. On the higher levels, some judges don’t even take the bench, their clerks do everything on some dockets. It looks to be an incredibly boring and taxing job to me, we are lucky anyone wants to do it.
So because he would not rubber stamp the police state, he was banished.
His first mistake was not changing his name.
Superior Court 23% (79)
Traffic Court 3% (11)
Supreme Court 14% (48)
No court at all 58% (192
bump for later
Ref: See Germany 1933 et. seq.
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Where should elected Judge Gary Kreep serve?
Superior Court 27% (121)
Traffic Court 2% (13)
Supreme Court 16% (72)
No court at all 53% (238)
Total votes 444
I voted for "Supreme Court" just to send the Constitution-hating liberal creeps a message.
C'mon, Freepers, freep this poll. Pour it on. That's what we're here for, correcto?
Leni
In all fairness, I imagine his greatest affront was “rocking the boat”. Courts, judges and lawyers are often lazy places, where the emphasis is on performing their roles in Kabuki theater, instead of honestly carrying out justice, which is a lot more work.
This can easily become stagnant and dishonest. While there are many examples, some of the worst are threatening defendants with draconian punishments, or light punishments if they accept plea deals.
Hand in glove with that is that they must admit guilt, even if they are obviously innocent, both because it precludes appeals, but even more so, to assuage the guilt of the judge and prosecutor, who at least suspect that they are railroading an innocent person.
What is of particular interest to me in this is that public defenders are nearly always liberals who try to keep criminals out of jail while prosecuting attorneys are often conservatives whose job it is to lock criminals up.
Judge Kreep (who I voted for) has the support of the public defenders and is being criticized and demoted at the behest of the prosecutors.
Now if they could just replace Snow....
Where should elected Judge Gary Kreep serve?
Superior Court ......30%...... (210)
Traffic Court ......2% ......(18)
Supreme Court ......15% ......(106)
No court at all ......51%...... (359)
Total votes693
Well, we can’t have this judge protecting defendants’ rights! Who knows, he might exonerate someone who actually is not guilty!
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