Reply #21: Inappropriateness

[SemperEadem]

Jones' defense team packed the committee's hearing room with supporters Wednesday. The supporters, some of them women, included a state senator, police officers and prosecutors who praised Jones' performance as a judge and said one incident shouldn't end his career.


I wonder... would those same law enforcement people praise Jones if he had in his chambers a PS2 with the video game 'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas', and in the game he was randomly killing police officers and then using the cheat codes to clear the 'wanted' stars during recess from a cop killer murder trail he was presiding over? Would they schedule news conferences to whine and cry and over the inappropriateness of that? What he did at the conference was beyond inappropriate. Any judge who cannot control his liquor is a liability and should be removed from the bench.

I believe that for most people who have appeared before this judge for various reasons should have state senators, prosecutors and police officers standing up saying "One incident shouldn't mar the defendent's record". However, the difference is this isn't one incident. Each grope was an incident. Therefore, he's got multiple, witnessed incidents.

He is a liability to jurisprudence and should be removed from the bench until he has completed alcohol detox, sensitivity training and 80 hours of community service and 10 years of probation.

He is held to a higher standard, so therefore, his punishment should serve as a deterrent to other people in law enforcement as an example.