On August 12 Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo shot down Danny Masterson’s most creative attempt to delay his rape trial. We told you about it a few days later, and recounted the rather strange steps that had led up to that Friday hearing. Masterson’s attorney Shawn Holley (an original O.J. Simpson “Dream Team” member) was trying to convince Judge Olmedo to delay the trial from October 11 to late in January because she was also handling a super-secret arbitration of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer.
Right on Judge, smack those lazy lawyers down and make them do the work they are getting paid for. I am starting to think that the only thing the defense can do for Rapey is delay the trial and any subsequent jail sentence for a few more months.
Katrina Reyes, Serge Gil, and Péter Bonyai. are among my $cieno heroes. "Today, she regards Scientology’s operation in Florida as a forced-labor camp." Perfect definition of the RPF and SO servitude in general. Good job NY Mag and Kevin Dugan.
Yes Immigration, investigate the CO$ for the fraud and conspiracy they commit.
Unfortunately the American legal system is set up in a manner that once a judge is seated, it becomes next to impossible to unseat them so they become lazy or at the best complacent in their positions and merely phone in their jobs.
Attorneys count on this. They expect them to accept their filings at face value and just rubber stamp them. They use the threat of appealing a case to sway a Judge to bend to their will, and there are a lot of judges out there with enough of an ego that this bothers them.
Judge Olmedo pays attention and wants cases to move forward. She is an exception rather than the rule. I am impressed by her and if I were a defense attorney, would be worried trying a case against her because she pays attention so subterfuge isn’t going to work.
As for the NYT article, perhaps something will be done, but I doubt it, government officials don’t seem to care. I hope the tide turns.
Olmedo rules: Read the decision to deny Danny Masterson’s latest trial delay attempt
Right on Judge, smack those lazy lawyers down and make them do the work they are getting paid for. I am starting to think that the only thing the defense can do for Rapey is delay the trial and any subsequent jail sentence for a few more months.
Katrina Reyes, Serge Gil, and Péter Bonyai. are among my $cieno heroes. "Today, she regards Scientology’s operation in Florida as a forced-labor camp." Perfect definition of the RPF and SO servitude in general. Good job NY Mag and Kevin Dugan.
Yes Immigration, investigate the CO$ for the fraud and conspiracy they commit.
Unfortunately the American legal system is set up in a manner that once a judge is seated, it becomes next to impossible to unseat them so they become lazy or at the best complacent in their positions and merely phone in their jobs.
Attorneys count on this. They expect them to accept their filings at face value and just rubber stamp them. They use the threat of appealing a case to sway a Judge to bend to their will, and there are a lot of judges out there with enough of an ego that this bothers them.
Judge Olmedo pays attention and wants cases to move forward. She is an exception rather than the rule. I am impressed by her and if I were a defense attorney, would be worried trying a case against her because she pays attention so subterfuge isn’t going to work.
As for the NYT article, perhaps something will be done, but I doubt it, government officials don’t seem to care. I hope the tide turns.