Per the Alaska Supreme Court’s decision, Judge David Landry: made inappropriate sexual comments to female court employees in the workplace. These included a note to a female employee that her “Hillbilly thermometers are distracting”, a note to a court clerk referring to a juror, stating, “I think Ms. _______ wants…
Judges say the darndest things. Take the case of the Honorable Gary W. Velie, a Superior Court judge in Clallam County, Washington. Back in 1988, in response to a complaint, he admitted “the use of racist and sexist language and embarrassing jokes.” Not only was he not reprimanded, the complaint…
You can probably guess where this one is going. Judge Biddle, of Douglas County, Colorado, and prosecutor Laurie Steinman admitted that they had sex in the courthouse, on multiple occasions, in multiple places. Though the affair was apparently the subject of courthouse gossip, it only appeared on the official radar…
George and Maxine Maynard, Jehovah’s witnesses, were going to find out. Obscuring the motto was a misdemeanor. Believing the “Live Free or Die” motto to be repugnant to their moral, religious and political beliefs in May or June 1974 Mr. Maynard actually snipped the words “or Die” off the license…
So the police respond to a call regarding a gas station burglary. At the scene, they see old Bullock trying to hide. When told to halt, he runs – and crashes through a plate glass window. He was caught and taken to the hospital. When the cuffs were removed, and…
Zoinks. Judge Kerry Evans was before the Ontario Judicial Council in 2004. The charges included: patting the groins and buttocks of co-workers; French-kissing co-workers; force-feeding Jujubes to his co-workers; and engaging in oral sex with a court worker in his office washroom. In his defense to the “oral sex in…
Sometimes a little effort goes a long way. Just ask one lawyer, Mr. Puricelli (who represented a man successfully in a civil rights case), who got upbraided for repeatedly failing to fix typos in his court filings. The judge described Mr. Puricelli’s written work as “careless, to the point of…
Back by popular demand, (and subpoena by the Judge of Tigerton Dells), it’s the second installment of “The Adventures of Wickstrom.” (click here for Part One.) We rejoin “Judge” Wickstrom at the conclusion of his second consecutive nine-month sentence for assuming to act as a public official (judge and clerk).…
Wisconsin Secession: “The Adventures Of ‘Judge’ Wickstrom: Part One” Talk about a sore loser! What should you do if you were “overwhelmingly defeated” in an election for a town’s highest public office? If you are James Wickstrom of Fairbanks, WI, that’s an easy question: secession! And although “the history of…
In almost every jurisdiction, male lawyers must wear a jacket and tie when they appear in court. The idea is to appear dignified and professional – we are, after all, officers of the court. Most attorneys would probably agree that the courtroom is not the place to make a fashion…