Slam the Gavel welcomes guest, Jennifer Hankins Lundy to the podcast. Jennifer Lundy is Executive Director at Texans for Judicial Accountability and is working towards having audio and video in all the courtrooms.
We had a great discussion regarding issues of the unethical behaviors of judges. Jennifer brought up a win in the Court of Appeal case of a father that suffered through five to six years of court abuse and didn't get to see his son for four years and the ENTIRE case has gotten thrown out.
We talked about the State Commission on Judicial Conduct (SCJC) Jennifer discovered that there had been 27,000 reports and only released 212 of them and that's less than1% that we can see what judge did what. Jennifer wants all records released and we need to see who is complaining and to investigate and respond before it becomes public. Judges are elected. The judges have to respond to the complaints and Jennifer needs to see who is complaining.
Another thing she is try to do is that they have had 531 private warnings in their reports, 212 public, but these private warnings on 4-20-2022, the judge failed to comply with the law, failed to maintain competence in the law, failed to accord parties and their counsel for the right to be heard to be heard according to the law, engaged in improper exparte communications, failing to allow attorneys to show proof when appropriate etc....yet they don't know who the judge is. What good does that do anyone? They have 12 members to their staff with all these complaints and that is not enough. Most judges are running their courtrooms willy-nilly and making up the rules as they go along. However there are some good judges out there. That is another reason why Jennifer Lundy wants audio and video in the courtroom and ACCOUNTABILITY. Jennifer has to go to the Legislature and get their revenue up so they can hire more people to look into these issues.
We also discussed the HB 969 that just passed for Custodial Interference that will now hold parents accountable for withholding the child from the other parent.
House Representatives and the Senate as well as Legislature have been working with Jennifer. Jennifer has people willing to help her and she started a 501C3.
It's very important to have support and people talking about it all over so Judicial Accountability can come to fruition.
To Reach Jennifer Hankins Lundy: [email protected]
FaceBook: Jennifer Hankins Lundy and Texans for Judicial Accountability
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