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Judge: “If someone doesn’t want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down.” He remains on the bench.

In California, my home state, an Orange County Superior Court Judge named Derek G. Johnson has been admonished by the Commission on Judicial Performance for his Todd Akinesque remarks in a sexual assault case.

Back in 2008, he  denied a 16-year prison term for Metin Gurel who had been convicted of rape, forcible oral copulation, domestic battery, stalking and making threats against his former live-in girlfriend. He also threatened to mutilate her face and vagina with a heated screwdriver.

Johnson sentenced him to 6 years.

Here’s how his minuscule speck of a brain worked, via the L.A. Times:

“I’m not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something. If someone doesn’t want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down. The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage in inflicted, and we heard nothing about that in this case.

“That tells me that the victim in this case, although she wasn’t necessarily willing, she didn’t put up a fight.”

So clearly, this was another case of illegitimate rape, because he also said the rape was “technical,” and not “a real, live criminal case.”

That would make him an “illegitimate judge”. Someone should shut him down.

The commission, the one that admonished Judge Ignoramus, said it did not learn of the judge’s remarks until May 2012.

Johnson remains on the bench.

Federal Appeals Court Rules Defense Of Marriage Act Unconstitutional

YEAH!!!

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in Manhattan has become the second in the nation to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling Thursday. The decision upholds a lower court judge who ruled that the 1996 law that defines marriage as involving a man and a woman was unconstitutional.

The three-judge panel says the law violates equal protection. A federal appeals court in Boston earlier this year also found it unconstitutional.

Judge Halts Enforcement Of Pennslyvania Voter I.D. Law

Alright, that’s a step forward.

10:12AM EST October 2. 2012 - A Pennsylvania judge is putting a halt to the state’s voter identification requirements, ordering today that it not be enforced for the presidential election just five weeks away.

The ruling by Judge Robert Simpson could be appealed. Under the state law, voters must show a valid photo ID to cast a vote.

Simpson said during hearings last week that he was considering invalidating a part of the law for the Nov. 6 election. Pennyslvania, considered by some to be a swing state, has 20 electoral votes up for grabs. President Obama has been leading statewide opinion polls there, but Mitt Romney said during a recent campaign swing that he could win in the state.

Woman claims Trayvon Martin killer Zimmerman molested her for more than a decade, his family members “proud racists”

(AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool)

We’ll find out if George Zimmerman will be tried and/or convicted for shooting an unarmed teen named Trayvon Martin. We already know he’s gotten off to a bad start by misleading the court, leading the judge to say that Zimmerman was going to jump bail with other people’s money and “Trayvon Martin is the only male whose youth is relevant to this case.”

Now we have something else that may not play well in the court of public opinion, via HuffPo:

A woman with close ties to George Zimmerman and his family told investigators that members of Zimmerman’s family were boastfully proud racists and that for more than a decade Zimmerman sexually molested her.

“It started when I was six,” the woman told investigators during an interview on the morning of March 20. “We’d all lay in front of the TV and we had pillows and blankets and he would reach under the blankets and try to do things and I would try to push him off but he was bigger and stronger and older,” the woman said, audibly weeping in the Florida State Attorney’s Office interview recording released Monday. “It was in front of everybody and I don’t know how I didn’t say anything, I just didn’t know any better.”

This went on, allegedly, for 13 years, from when she was six years old until she was nineteen.

“It’s not just me that he did these things to,” she said. The witness said that she talked to another woman who she claims was also molested by Zimmerman, but would not come forward.

Several news sources are reporting that she is a relative of the Zimmermans.

The woman has also claimed that Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin because he was black. She is the second person who suggested Zimmerman family members “harbored negative racial views.”

Since it’s important to use the word “allegedly” when discussing legal matters, let it be on the record that I am allegedly sickened.

HuffPo has audio of the witness here.

VIDEO: Florida judge sets bond at $1 million for Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman

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FYI, from MSNBC:

A Florida judge granted bond Thursday for George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed teenager Trayvon Martin. It’s the second time Zimmerman has been given bail ahead of his trial.

Judge Kenneth Lester set bond at $1 million, but Zimmerman will only need to come up with 10 percent, with the rest provided by a bail bondsman, NBC News reported.

Zimmerman, 28, has been in jail since last month, when prosecutors told the judge that Zimmerman hid from the court the fact that he raised $135,000 in online donations. Lester then revoked the $150,000 bail he had granted Zimmerman on April 20.

UPDATE:

(CNN) — But an even bigger challenge is finding a bail bond company that will work with the family on the requirement of $1 million in collateral, defense attorney Mark O’Mara said later Thursday. The family does “not have anywhere near” the collateral amount, according to the attorney.

“We are encouraged we can work this out,” O’Mara said in a statement.

Donations to Zimmerman’s legal defense fund have dropped significantly while Zimmerman has been jailed, O’Mara said. [...]

The fund has a $211,000 balance, but has $40,000 in payables for defense expenses.

UPDATE: Judge: Zimmerman was going to jump bail with other people’s money… Judge: “Trayvon Martin is the only male whose youth is relevant to this case.”

Judge Sentences Woman To Read Bible For Drunk Driving Conviction

I cannot take this wacked out country any more. Can you imagine the uproar if it were a passage from the Koran or Talmud about perseverance?

ROCK HILL, S.C. (CBS Charlotte) — What would Jesus do?

A South Carolina judge not only sentenced a woman to eight years behind bars for driving drunk, but he also ordered the woman to read the Bible.

According to the Herald of Rock Hill, Circuit Court Judge Michael Nettles wants Cassandra Tolley to read the Old Testament and write for him a summary about Job.

Kenneth Gaines, a law professor for the University of South Carolina, doesn’t think it will warrant any constitutional concerns.

“Under normal circumstances, the judge wouldn’t have the authority to do that,” Gaines told the paper. “But if she consented, it’s really not an issue. It’s critical that the defendant was in entire agreement with it.”

Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman’s wife arrested, charged with perjury

Remember this? Judge revokes bond for George Zimmerman, charged with Trayvon Martin murder. And then he went back to jail “after prosecutors accused him of withholding one of two valid passports and said his wife did not tell the court about money donated for his legal defense.”

Well, now the Orlando Sentinel is reporting that George’s wife Shellie was arrested on a perjury charge with bond set at $1,000.

Another Lack of Credibility Moment brought to you by the Zimmermans.

UPDATE: Here is the full statement of probable cause (h/t: Think Progress).