In covering the effort to get Judge Leslie Lewis off the bench, Lisa Rosetta thinks the issue is because the judge “berated a hunter in court” and that’s enough to set sportsmen off. Either Rosetta can’t read, doesn’t understand the concept of civil liberties or honestly believes that jailing people who don’t agree with the views of one government worker is acceptable policy. I really wish she would clarify her position in a bio line or something. It would be helpful in figuring out if the employees of Scripps are simply ignorant or if they are just against pesky little things like the Bill of Rights.

Whoever it is, the beef with Lewis _ who is up for a retention vote on Nov. 7 _ apparently stems from a hearing in her courtroom in February during which she berated and detained Kent Jacobson, the brother of a defendant charged with a deer-hunting violation, for challenging her assumptions about hunting.

The Web site, which accuses Lewis of handcuffing spectators, bullying people and not letting them answer questions she poses to them, has four links to a March 5 Salt Lake Tribune article, “Judge muzzles hunter in court.”

Accuses? Did you watch the video? She did order a spectator jailed because he answered her question with a response she didn’t like. The hunter didn’t challenge her. She demanded an answer and he gave one – a correct one because hunting is a legal activity in Utah – she didn’t like. From the stories I’m getting out of Utah since I started blogging about this, it’s not the first time. Unfortunately, several of them are coming from people who may have to work with her and they don’t want to come out since if she’s retained, she can, and likely will, make their lives hell.

Back to Rosetta: See, silly little girl, this isn’t because a hunter got his feelings hurt in some decision he didn’t like and it’s not that she called him a name or didn’t agree with his legal right to take game lawfully. This is about abuse of power. Having people jailed for disagreement with the government. A woman who considers herself above the level of mere citizens she is supposed to protect from such abuse. Sportsmen are simply the ones smart enough to get the tape and let the public see what power hungry witch she is. What I would love to see happen is for others who have been victims of her power trips to get the tapes of those instances and post them online.

I’d also like to remind the ignorant Ms. Rosetta that there’s more to this story. From my original post:

Of attorneys who worked with her, 40% of them think she’s biased in the courtroom. Gee, I wonder what gave them that impression. And 46% of them doubt her ability to properly perceive legal issues, something I’d consider pretty important for a judge. And she doesn’t even come close to the minimum standards suggested by the state’s Judicial Council.

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