More papering, different county

Here's another article about the disqualification of a judge. As previously discussed on this blog, the RivCo DA is regularly papering Judge Gary Tranbarger for alleged prejudice. The allegation is without any foundation, but I'm glad the DA is doing it because at least we have one judge dedicated to civil trials. At any rate, the San Berdoo public defender is now seemingly disqualifying a San Bern Superior Court Judge.

Interestingly, the judge admitted considering incarceration for bad courtroom conduct of one particularly intransigent attorney. I have never heard of such threats by a judge. The behavior hopefully warranted such punishment. Attorneys are known as "officers of the court" whereby they are supposed to be facilitating the court's effort at doling out justice. I usually like to give attorney's the benefit of the doubt in understanding their role. This is not to say that their isn't bad conduct in court by attorneys, their certainly is, but bad enough to warrant incarceration? That is quite a stretch.