tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post925133060673881727..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indiana™: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy Charged In Corruption ProbeGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-86938862663015277692014-07-03T13:46:42.563-05:002014-07-03T13:46:42.563-05:00Nicholas Sarkozy has done nothing compared to Offi...Nicholas Sarkozy has done nothing compared to Officer Rich Mount and Ken Campbell in the Boone County and Lebanon Police Departments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-56639537035281550432014-07-02T14:54:19.777-05:002014-07-02T14:54:19.777-05:00While we’re on the topic of Judges, people have be...While we’re on the topic of Judges, people have been talking about Garland Graves, the judge out in Warren Township. It seems the lawyers representing debt collectors have been using Court offices again to confer with defendant debtors and squeeze out settlements. They walk around that courtroom while court is in session like they own the place. One case was called, the defendant went up, someone said the lawyer was out in the hall talking on the phone, the bailiff/constable Paul Tuttle went after him, and five minutes later the debt collectors’ counsel sauntered back in, without an apology. Seems the Judge has lost control over there. And litigants were all brought in and had to be in their seats before an 8:30 morning session. The Judge didn’t show for an hour, and come 11:30 he was still representing debtor cases all represented by only 2 lawyers while an entire courtroom of landlord tenant cases sat for 3 hours before being heard. Can’t they stagger those court hearing times? The landlords were cursing the Judge in the parking lot, and comparing him to Judge Rivera. There were several issues about the Judges landlord tenant decisions that were frustrating the property owners. Landlords now have to come back for a second hearing to get a judgment. Every other court will give you possession and a judgment for 1 months rent in the first eviction hearing and damages hearings are optional, but Judge Graves makes you come back for a judgment, making every eviction a two hearing process. Not popular. If Judge Graves wants to win re-election he’s got to run an efficient property court. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-29119260243508182572014-07-02T13:41:17.553-05:002014-07-02T13:41:17.553-05:00French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesd...French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday that his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy should be seen as innocent until proven guilty. Le Figaro, the newspaper of choice for many French conservatives, asks if Nicolas Sarkozy is not being singled out for political reasons, and suggests that French judges are seeking revenge for criticisms he made of the justice system while in office, when he famously described magistrates as indistinguishable "little peas". His supporters are sure the whole thing must be a set-up. They say there is pathetically little in the file that the magistrates are trying to build against him. How can Mr Sarkozy be accused of influence peddling, they ask, when the judge he was supposedly using at the High Court of Appeal had no role in the various investigations that were under way; and when that same judge never even got the cushy job in Monaco that was allegedly his bribe? And how can there be justice when the magistrates only stumbled on the affair after tapping Mr Sarkozy's phones and listening into conversations with his lawyer? While president, Mr Sarkozy came to be detested by many in the justice system. Rightly or wrongly, magistrates saw him as trampling on their cherished independence - and they vowed revenge. The fact is that over the years, Nicolas Sarkozy has alienated huge swathes of the French establishment. "But the establishment still has power in France. And there is nothing more establishment than French judges." <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com