The Center for Judicial Excellence welcomes all interested parties to join us in San Francisco this Monday and Tuesday at 455 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco. Click here to read CJE’s Oct 27 – 28 Judicial Council Statement and click here to see Exhibit A that goes with it. Please click here for full details about the upcoming Judicial Council meetings in San Francisco. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Vermont AG Sorrell sues Emerge Family Advocates
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT — Vermont’s Attorney General Bill Sorrell last week filed a lawsuit to revoke funding of Emerge Family Advocates, Inc., a nonprofit supervised visitation center. The petition for an injunction also seeks to remove the board of directors. The center is operated by a state legislator, family court judges and some of the professionals who appear before them. This is … [Read more...]
Task force assails child protection for meager follow-up
A task force examining Minnesota’s child protection system spent its first meeting Monday discussing what critics say is its chief failing: a general reluctance to investigate reports of child abuse and neglect. The task force was created by Gov. Mark Dayton last month, in the wake of a Star Tribune report about a 4-year-old Pope County boy who was killed by his stepmother despite repeated … [Read more...]
TX: He Beat Her And Murdered Her Son — And She Got 45 Years In Jail
BATTERED, BEREAVED, AND BEHIND BARS Arlena Lindley’s boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child — so why was she sent to prison for 45 years? A BuzzFeed News Investigation. The first thing Latricia Chance saw when she walked up to the apartment that October morning was a toddler, alone and shoeless, eating cereal on the doorstep. It was her friend Arlena Lindley’s … [Read more...]
Domestic abuse ‘ordinary’ in U.S.
(CNN) -- The video of Ray Rice knocking his then-fiancee Janay Palmer unconscious and then dragging her body out of an elevator brought the topic of domestic violence to the nation's attention. Unfortunately, the series of events in this case -- the initial abuse, then the victim-blaming, and the NFL's response -- is not unique to the hyper-masculine culture of the NFL, but is a microcosm of what … [Read more...]
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