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I have known Sterling Norris personally for many years, and the two of us have appeared in front of the same television cameras re: judicial corruption. Sterling � used to work as a deputy prosecutor within the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. He was, in my oppinion, too honest and too principled to be a D.A. - Ron Branson
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FISCAL CRISIS: Illegal Payments Create Law For Judicial Criminal & Liability Immunity: Nominees For U S Supreme Court To Be Impacted?
STERLING
NORRIS
Judicial
Watch Attorney (Sturgeon vs County of Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
While counties, cities and the entire state are on the brink of financial
collapse all California Superior Court Judges are fighting hard, in court and in
the State Legislature, to keep the illegal payments made to them by county
governments. The Judicial Watch organization successfully challenged those
payments made to Judges in L A County, where over the past decade it has been
estimated that L.A. Judges have received up to $300 million dollars. A
Fourth District Appellate Court decision
in October 2008 (Sturgeon vs County of Los
Angeles) held those payments to the Judges were indeed unlawful. This action
prompted the Judges to fight back.
RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY FROM
PROSECUTION
Judges were apparently worried about being prosecuted
for criminal acts and liability for taking the unearned money. At the urging of
the Los Angeles Superior Court, the California Judicial Council quietly authored
a provision that was slipped into the State Budget legislation SBX 211,
without public debate or awareness. This provision granted retroactive immunity
from criminal prosecution to all California Judges and County officials who
received or made those illegal payments of public money. Depending on who you
talk to the payments are referred to as "unearned benefits" or "Judicial
Benefits".
NON DISCLOSURE FOR
JUDGES?
Full Disclosure Network � inteviewed
Judicial Watch attorney Sterling Norris in April 2009 as part of an on
going "special series" entitled Judicial Benefits and Court Corruption. We
asked Norris what motivated the California Judicial Council to change the
law giving themselves retroactive immunity from criminal prosecution? His
response was:
"they would not have sponsored the legislation unless they really felt the Judges needed immunity from criminal prosecution and liability".
Ironically, Richard I. Fine, a former prominent anti-trust attorney is still sitting in the Los Angeles County Central Men's Jail, in isolation, for more than 70 days. He was held in contempt of court, after he attempted to disqualify Superior Court Judge David Yaffe from sitting on a case that involved the County of Los Angeles. According to Fine , Yaffe failed to disclose to the parties in the case (Marina Strand Colony II Homeowners Association vs County of Los Angeles) that he had been receiving $46,000, on top of his State salary, from the County for years. Yaffe defended the practice of "coercive confinement" in response to a Writ of Habeas Corpus for Immediate Release filed by Fine in the Federal Court on March 29, 2009.
QUOTES ON NON-DISCLOSURE &
PROSECUTION
Sterling Norris
of Judicial Watch had these comments regarding unearned payments to Judges and
their failure to disclose.
IMPACT ON JUDICIAL
APPOINTMENTS?
Without immunity for criminal acts, a
complicating factor associated with the illegal payments to Judges is that a
number of Los Angeles Superior Court Judges have been appointed to higher courts
during the past two decades . They now sit on the Supreme Court and the
Appellate Court. The question is, does the fact they have accepted unearned
money from other than their employer disqualify them from higher appointments?
In his request for investigation and complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice
Richard I. Fine points to both Appellate and
Supreme Court Justices who have received illegal payments from the County and
who have been granted criminal immunity. The California Constitution (Sec. 17, 19,
20)
states that Judges may not receive money from other parties than their employer,
the State of California, and the Legislature has the sole responsibility for
setting compensation and retirement benefits. On page 4 of the Fine request for
investigation he names California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, who has
been mentioned as a possible nominee to the U. S. Supreme Court by President
Obama.
JULY 2nd COURT HEARING IN L.A.
The on-going controversy over the State's fiscal crisis, Judicial
benefits and appointments is playing out in yet another court hearing on July 2,
2009 when Appellate Justice Richman will preside in an L A Superior Court to
rule on the Judicial Watch motion for injunctive relief, to prohibit the county
from making futher illegal payments to the Judges. At that time Sterling Norris
will have an opportunity to raise thie issue of Constitutionality of SBX2 11
granting Judges retroactive immuity for liability and criminal acts without
public discussion or debate.
FISCAL CRISIS & WHO PAYS THE
BIG LAW FIRMS ?
The Judical Watch organization, has been been
faced with formidable opposition from County of Los Angeles and their private
lawfirm Jones-Day and the Superior Court of Los Angeles who retained
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who successfully obtained "Intervenor" status in
the case. The "unearned benefits" going to the Judges, not the public raises the
issue who will pay the big law firms? Will it be the taxpayers or the Judges who
personally benefit from the payments? Win or loose it is going to cost a lot of
money.
JUDGES ASSN. DECLINE
INTERVIEW
The Full Disclosure® Host Leslie Dutton
contacted Judge Mary Wiss, president of the California Judges Association
for an interview for this two-part with Sterling Norris, Judge Wiss referred us
to their lobbyist, Mr. Mike Beliote, who declined an interview saying "the
Judges have decided not to be interviewed on this subject" The Full
Disclosure series is to be released to 40 cable systems and on the Internet
in June 2009. This is part three and four of the on-going series. # # #
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Labels: California Superior
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