A Nashville judge is in hot water with the court that regulates Tennessee judges.That court, the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary, announced Monday that it has filed formal charges against General Sessions Judge Gloria Dumas.
At the center of the complaint are questions about Dumas' persistent tardiness -- a problem first exposed by NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
The nine-page complaint lays out what we discovered: a judge who had great difficulty being on-time and, according to the charges, didn't seem to care when she was told she wasn't following state law.
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I imagine tardiness is more than the problem here.
ReplyDeleteLateness is arrogance.
ReplyDeleteMy local judge is late all the time. One case was re-scheduled three times. On the third time, the mother of the defendant was talking to the judge's neighbor and complained that her son had to take off work for the third Monday in a row, only to have the judge reschedule because of emergencies.
ReplyDelete"Emergencies?" the judge's neighbor responded.
And then she said she saw the judge mowing his grass that very morning - during the "emergency".
I am glad to see any judge held accountable and if it's for being tardy, then that's something.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather see them get in trouble for not following the law in guardianship cases. That they seem to get by with.
Most judges are all about ego and power. They think they're more important than everybody else in the room.
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