Just a thought, could some Judges don't even know how government works?

[Gavilan]

While doing some research, I came to notice that there are a lot of DUI / DWI cases about judges:

Do a google search for "judge arrested dui OR dwi" and you will see.

Now, I came across this article:

http://poststar.com/news/local/judge...cc4c002e0.html

A state Supreme Court justice has ruled in Warren County's favor in a lawsuit that questioned the county district attorney's office's handling of a driving while intoxicated case.

Glens Falls lawyer Tucker Stanclift last month filed a lawsuit against the Warren County District Attorney's Office accusing the prosecutor's office of improperly intervening in an Oct. 12 license suspension hearing in a driving while intoxicated case.

License suspension hearings are civil proceedings, and Stanclift objected to the district attorney's office's questioning of a witness Stanclift had called to contradict a police officer's testimony. Stanclift had sought to overturn the license suspension and establish that prosecutors could not take part in license suspension hearings.

Glens Falls Judge Richard Tarantino suspended Stanclift's client's license, and Stanclift sued Tarantino and District Attorney Kate Hogan, claiming that Assistant District Attorney Matthew Burin should not have been allowed to cross-examine the witness.

Justice Robert Muller sided with the district attorney's office and judge, calling Burin's actions "completely appropriate," and finding that the "fundamental fairness of procedural due process would be undermined" if the district attorney's office was not allowed to cross-examine a witness.

The judge also found the law does not specifically allow prosecutors to take part in the hearing, but it does not bar them, either.

Hogan said her office agreed with the judge's findings.

"Judge Muller hit the nail on the head when he said that fundamental fairness requires that the people be provided the same due process rights as a defendant, and denying our ability to cross-examine a witness violates our due process rights," she said.

Stanclift said Muller's decision will be appealed.

He said allowing the prosecution to take part in license suspension hearings raises questions about whether such proceedings are civil in nature.

"I disagree with the finding that a prosecutor can participate in a civil proceeding, as was done in this case," Stanclift said.

He said the district attorney's office's involvement will likely lead to claims that a person is subject to "double jeopardy" when prosecuted in criminal court for DWI after his or her license is suspended during a civil proceeding after an arrest.

Like it reads, license suspension hearings are civil matters, think about that for a moment. If you signed the application, you entered into the contract, right?

Now, don't get me wrong, there are some cases where the judges know and have used procedure to get out of the charges.

Then, it seemed odd that judges would not have other judges help each other, and guess what, there are judges' associations.

http://aja.ncsc.dni.us/

Clearly they are not the ones in the select circle. If they were, there would not be a need for an open association. The point being, judges are just powerful cogs in the machine of state, even they don't know the most powerful secret.