Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:52:55 PM
If you were to meet me on the street, with 10 other folks my age, I doubt that you could pick me out.
I know that I am a forceful, perhaps even a humorless writer when it comes to issues I feel strongly about. I can't hide the fact that I believe I was assigned a judge who appears to have demonstrated little or no interest in doing his job carefully, at least in my lawsuit. I can't hide the fact that I believe that the 4th District Judicial Retention Commission did the public a terrible disservice when they decided not to inform the public what had happened in my lawsuit. They put their own individual and collective reputations at the mercy of a judge who apparently will continue to
ignore attorney misconduct and their reputations will and should suffer for it. I can't hide the fact that I believe the State Supreme Court has maliciously created a set of nice looking but entirely toothless ethics rules, and I have suffered for years because of it. I could go on . . .
Even so, I find writing about these and other issues to be wonderfully therapeutic. Others may not find my writing exactly therapeutic, but I do. So, if you are looking to identify me on the street, look for the happy, smiling grey headed guy who laughs often and loud, not the puritanical, humorless, and angry fellow you may think you see in these posts.
No, I am not one heartbeat away from a heart attack, and if that bursts your bubble, so be it.
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If you saw an earlier version of this post tonight, I wrote it a bit stronger than I meant to. It would be unwise of me to claim that the judge in question was "unqualified" when ten people who are much smarter than I am think him "an asset to the community." I retract the assertion. I think I made a good case that this judge was not careful in my Retention Commission input, and since we are talking about my "belief" that can and will stand.