A Florida judge who jailed a crying survivor of domestic abuse is being sanctioned by the state Supreme Court. Seminole County Judge Jerri Collins jailed the woman for three days last summer after brutally berating her in court, telling her, “You think you’re going to have anxiety now? You haven’t even seen anxiety.” Collins jailed the woman for contempt after she failed to appear to testify … [Read more...]

The woman whose husband killed her and their three children before killing himself Wednesday night quit work less than two weeks before her death because she was “scared for her life,” a co-worker said Friday. “I cannot work,” read an abrupt June 18 text from the woman, Phoukeo Dej-Oudom, 35, to her manager. “He’ll know I am where I am. I have to quit now.” On Wednesday, Las Vegas police … [Read more...]

Oakland County Judge Lisa Gorcyca sent 3 children to juvenile detention in contentious custody case A special master appointed by the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission says Oakland County Judge Lisa Gorcyca was guilty of misconduct when she held three children in contempt of court in a contentious custody case and sent them to juvenile detention after they refused to interact with their … [Read more...]

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — A group of women’s advocates and assault survivors gave a judicial agency in San Francisco 200,000 more signatures Wednesday calling for the ouster of a judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexual assault. The new signatures add to more than a million previously submitted to the state Commission on Judicial … [Read more...]

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A group of activists protested outside the State Building in San Francisco Wednesday, calling for an investigation of the judge who handed down the light sexual assault sentence to a former Stanford swimmer. The California Commission on Judicial Performance met in San Francisco for the first time since Judge Aaron Persky’s decision in the Brock Turner sex assault … [Read more...]