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August 16, 2005
That long absent law-related post
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Omaha criminal defense lawyer J. William Gallup has filed an appeal including a poem criticizing the judge who sentenced his client.
In a heated hearing of his appeal last month, Gallup argued that White should have been removed from the bench after a 2000 case in which she urged a prosecutor to appeal a district judge's overturning of her sentence of a domestic abuser. When the prosecutor wouldn't appeal, White asked a district judge to appoint a special prosecutor to do so.The Nebraska Supreme Court suspended White for four months, noting that the judicial code of conduct prohibits judges from trying to orchestrate actions in a case outside of court.
Gallup contends that White has learned nothing from that suspension.
"She's a zealot when it comes to these domestic violence cases," he said. "She's completely biased."
But prosecutor Aimee Cizek, a deputy Douglas County attorney, suggested that Gallup is seizing on White's past to try to create appellate issues for Jewell - who she said is the "poster boy of domestic violence" and was "clearly guilty."
The full text of the poem is here.
How can a judge, supposed to be fair,
Tell the complainant to come sit in a chair,
Next to the judge and a guard with a gun
Before the trial has even begun.With the presumption of innocence gone before trial,
A conviction was rendered in a very short while.
While today is concerned with fairness in bond,
It is clear the Judge White was not living on Walden Pond.Her bond was outrageous and set without care.
It just wasn't right and it certainly wasn't fair.
I admire J. William's chutzpah but I know quite a few lawyers who could pen better verse.
Posted by Half-Cocked at August 16, 2005 12:53 AM
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i just always do the dailykos/dailykos or kos@dailykos.com login. i think owh takes it. i HATE how they make you register for this stuff.
Posted by: julee at August 16, 2005 11:13 AM