There is a proposed law to get rid of qualified immunity: find the law here. There is also an update in Angela Freiner’s case, where the GAL, Kim Whittle, appears clueless that the girl is isolated with no phone. Check out Pharaos Parenting, where you must have exact change for your supervised visits. Finally, I play a bit from this podcast of Brad Conley and his sixteen year old son talking about Orange County family court abuse.
If you have had Steve Dragna, their GAL, reach out to me.
Megan provides an update of J6 prisoner who is still languishing in jail. Find that article here. It appears the judge in Chuck Haynes’ case wants to jail Evita Tolu, attorney for his estranged wife. Haynes is a convicted sodomizer, who is trying to get access to another of his children from jail.
More on the emerging Montana scandal as well.
I didn’t have a chance to get to this article, but here is an article about how judges enjoy a unique place above the law.
If you walk into the Civil Division of the Mecklenburg County Clerk of Court’s office on any given day, the room is full of people coming and going, there to look at a court file, make copies or get an official record.
North Carolina’s court system still runs almost entirely on paper, which means the only way you can access information about a case is to go to the courthouse and ask to see the documents.
But one court case in Mecklenburg County has been hidden from public view, a WBTV investigation has found. The case involves a sitting judge who is accused, in a legal filing, of domestic violence. Instead of sitting on the shelves for staff to access and provide to the public, the file sits locked in the office of Elisa Chinn-Gary, Mecklenburg County’s elected Clerk of Court.
District Court Judge Kimberly Best filed a lawsuit in November 2019 against a woman she alleged had an affair with her ex-husband, Randall Staton, while Best and Staton were still married.
Check it all out.