Amy Walczak, Board Member of Adoption Advocates Jacob's Staff, was just notified of inappropriate and illegal communications between Pennsylvania Judge Stanley Ott and local adoption attorney Jay Ginsburg during a closed adoption and custody case, Walczak says.
"The adoprion case must be overturned," Walczak said. "The improper communications violate the law and put all Judge's Ott's previous rulings on this case in question."
The email shows that Judge Ott called Ginsburg to the side of the court room after a routine case to gossip about the case. Ginsberg was the former adoption attorney in the case and this ex parte communication was illegal, says Walczak. At the time Gindburg had a case before Judge Ott about this matter, Walczak added.
According to Walczak, this is the second complaint about Judge Ott's role in this case. Walczak says Ott held a secret meeting with attorneys who are part of the case. The secret meetings dropped charges against one party but not another and suppressed evidence, says Walczak. The meetings and dropped charges against one party were not revealed to the client, a violation of the law, she says.
"It's clear these rulings can not be allowed to stand," said Walczak. "We need a new Judge and new attorneys to give this beautiful baby girl a new and fair trial."
A brazen judge like this one has got to go!
ReplyDeleteI agree. This is awful.
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