Monday, February 10, 2020 at 5:16:00 P.M. EST
[Re: “Thinking ‘the Unthinkable’: That’s What We Do at WEJB/NSU.”]
In one of his Butch Karp novels, our friend Robert Tanenbaum wrote something like, “He had the typical qualification for a judge. He had a law degree and knew a politician.”
The late Vincent Bugliosi, in his book on the O.J. Simpson trial, in discussing Lance Ito wrote:
“Although there are many exceptions, by and large the bench boasts undistinguished lawyers whose principal qualification for the most important position in our legal system is the all-important political connection. Rarely, for instance, will a governor seek out a renowned but apolitical legal scholar and proffer a judgeship.Would you say the case the WEJB/NSU spent the most time on (2007-2019) had a judge (or two) with some of the above attributes?
“It has been my experience and, I daresay, the experience of most veteran trial lawyers that the typical judge has little or no trial experience as a lawyer, or is pompous and dictatorial on the bench, or worst of all, is clearly partial to one side or the other in the lawsuit. Sometimes the judge displays all three infirmities.”
N.S.: God… those guys.
Richard Baumgartner
Jon Kerry Blackwood
Walter Kurtz
Who was the worst? I’d have to say Blackwood, because he wanted to give all of the then-indicted killers new trials, for no good reason, but all three judges subverted justice by busing in extra black jurors from Davidson County, which had different racial demographics than the jurisdiction (Knox County) where the crimes were committed, in order to guarantee that justice would not be done.
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Richard Baumgartner (Judge Mischief) actually went to prison for getting drugs from a probationer in his court. He was also having sex with her.
And Baumgartner declined to perform the most basic function of acting as 13th Juror affirming the verdicts. This brought on Judge Blackwood who had the great idea of overturning all the verdicts. The trial Blackwood presided over was Vanessa Coleman's retrial. For that one, Blackwood bused in a jury from Madison County (Jackson, TN) hundreds of miles away in West Tennessee and even blacker than Davidson County.
I wonder why (as far as I know) movie producers have no interest in this case?
What are the qualifications for the job of school superintendent in Grand Rapids?
https://www.fox17online.com/grps-to-narrow-its-list-of-five-candidates-for-superintendent
If you don't want to Google it,I'll tell you--ALL FIVE ARE BLACK.
I hate Grand Rapids.
We just had a blackie female(Teresa Weatherall)--for two decades-- run the schools into the ground--thanks in part to the massive increase of black "students" into the district.Test scores have cratered in GR Public schools,so obviously,that means ANOTHER blackie has to be hired to continue the failed policies.I cannot believe that not ONE white qualified to be a finalist for this job.
And the media doesn't say a word about it.This is racism at it's worst--yet all the local channels will bitch about,is a lack of black nominees on award shows or Miss America.Something like this happens--and crickets,
I hate the media.
--GRA
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