I’m sure a lot of them should be disbarred. Nothing but snakes in the grass in that realm.
No, some of them and some lawyers are dedicated professionals who do a good job and care. But there are a multitude of bad ones and it's horrible for the country.
This Tuscaloosa judge (according articles I have read and iirc) was the judge for the case where a fellow sorority sister sued Saban's daughter for assault after a hen fight. The judge's ruling dismissing the case was
so grossly unconstitutional that the Alabama Supreme Court
had to officially reprimand the judge and send the case back to him. And you know good and well the Alabama Supreme court did
not want to have to intervene in that case!
But the judge's actions were unlawful and too incompetent or clearly corrupt (no other choice) for them to stomach. They didn't want that abhorrent precedent in the case law. Mrs. Saban, some said, had offered the girl game tickets and parking passings to drop the whole matter, but she had refused.
When the re-hearing was about to begin – the attorney for the plaintiff (the woman suing Saban's daughter) – showed up in court with a one-sentence motion asking that her own case be dismissed! Now the Bama media and even some national media bragged on how Saban had stood up to blackmail. No one asked if the woman had been paid, but it was so obvious. And both attorneys and both women refused to speak about it. That was almost surely part of the deal.
Then there is the instance where this same judge (also based on a published article, not my personal knowledge, and to the best of my recollection) participated in absolutely railroading of a mentally retarded defendant in a case where the public defender, prosecutor, and judge acted in unison in the most extraordinary manner. Again, it was either absolute incompetence or criminal complicity. This was done to a human being.
He is also frequent guest lecturer at Alabama.
If only there were a reporter in America.
