Justice perverted

[ladder13]

Texas judge gets busted sending helpful text messages to prosecutors.

Poor Richard's News - Texas Judge resigns after being caught texting instructions to prosecutors to help win convictions

 

[Sebago Son]

Resigns? This is the highest form of betrayal of the public trust. He should be vigourously prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

 

[shouldazagged]

Resigns? This is the highest form of betrayal of the public trust. He should be vigourously prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

"He" is a woman, but I agree absolutely. She should be charged, and do time if found guilty. Then never be allowed to practice law again.

 

[ordy]

Disbarment at the least.

 

[brucev]

She is stepping down. Why no perp walk? Why no trip through court... then state penitentiary? Recon it's just not acceptable to give a judge the same treatment that any other criminal would face.

 

[Xfuzz]

My home county.
This is no joke....
Miss Liz is now seeking election as County Criminal District Atty.
No place but Texas.

 

[ladder13]

Anyone notice the "Certificate of Honor" on the wall?

 

[kozmic]

When do we make an example of these crooks masked as public servants?

 

[williamlayton]

If it was her Grandaddy I knew--he is rolling in his grave.
Blessings

 

[shouldazagged]

My home county.
This is no joke....
Miss Liz is now seeking election as County Criminal District Atty.
No place but Texas.

Now that's REALLY appalling!

 

[Road Rat]

Is NOT that sort of activity totally ILLEGAL????

Where is the handcuffs, jail time, stand before another judge????

I want JUSTICE.................and I'm not seeing it.

 

[Grayfox]

Now every person ever convicted in her court has a valid reason to appeal for retrial. That could get real expensive for the State of Texas.

 

[Road Rat]

Now every person ever convicted in her court has a valid reason to appeal for retrial. That could get real expensive for the State of Texas.

They should get new trials. No one knows how many she messed with!

Question: We are a Nation Of Laws and this woman gets to keep her license to practice law????????????????

 

[S&W45Colt]

The Justice system has not been just, not a standardized system for a long, long time. No surprise here. You can have the justice you can afford these days. They let the ones out they should keep and keep the ones who should have never been there too many times.

There are several judges, one each from GA and PA, in particular, serving time for conspiring with "private" prisons to convict and overly sentence people to fill their prison cells.

We live in a country that resembles the one we rebelled against a lot more than the one we originally created.

 

[kwselke]

My home county.
This is no joke....
Miss Liz is now seeking election as County Criminal District Atty.
No place but Texas.

I'll chance a guess. She will be running against an incumbent DA who she was communicating with during trials therefore the mudslinging will be minimized.

 

[Hodgin]

Wow. If true, she should get alot more than disbarment. She deserves serious time.

This also means chaos in the court system. Her decisions are likely to be overturned or at least new trials, and she's been on the bench for 14 yrs.

The prosecutors should be disbarred and perhaps subject to criminal prosecution. This ought to be equivalent to a judge accepting bribes.

 

[straightshooter1]

I was reading an article on this person in the Houston Chronicle and she also:

Actually slipped into the jury room during jury deliberations to tell jurors how to vote in some cases!

I've seen, heard about and prosecuted some public officials who were real pieces of work, but I have to admit this is the first time I have ever heard of something like this, at least in modern times.

I'm not big on conspiracy theories, but this (simply allowing her to resign) has the ring or, perhaps I should say the stink of something really wrong inside the Texas Criminal Justice System.

I don't get offended too easily, but she offends me and the stupid prosecutors (and apparently other lawyers, too) that allowed this to go on tick me off to no end.

Bob

 

[finesse_r]

The first reply to that article got it right. The judge got off too easy and she should be facing criminal charges.

 

[Doug M.]

Someone needs to be disbarred and prosecuted. No excuse for this.

 

[Rastoff]

Now every person ever convicted in her court has a valid reason to appeal for retrial. That could get real expensive for the State of Texas.

This is exactly right. Also, what about those wrongly convicted? Their lives have been ruined. They will sue the state.