I Love Yew, Texas
New Braunfels is a small town stuck between Austin and San Antonio. It is famous for the rivers running through it, providing great fun for tubers in the hot Texas sun.
And a butt crazy judicial system.
State District Judge Jack Robison interrupted jury deliberation to “sway jurors to return a not guilty verdict in the trial of a Buda woman accused of trafficking a teen girl for sex.”
He said he was powerful sorry to interrupt them but, “when God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it,” according to the Herald-Zeitung in New Braunfels.
I suspect the jury figured that if God wanted them to know something, he would have told them, not the judge.
The jury went against the judge’s wishes, finding Gloria Romero-Perez guilty of continuous trafficking of a person and later sentenced her to 25 years in prison. They found her not guilty of a separate charge of sale or purchase of a child.
However, think how much money we’d save if we eliminated juries and just let God tell Jack who is guilty and who ain’t.
I can only imagine if Judge Robinson had lived in Judea and presided over a Roman court in the A.D. 30’s, how much time Jesus might have spent locked up behind bars, or whatever passed for jails in those days.
I can also imagine the look on Jesus’ face when the good judge told him “when God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it.”
1Jack is polishing his star in hopes of being noticed. He’s SCROTUS material by Dotard45 ‘standards.’
2I really wish all these degenerates would crawl back under those rocks. We do not need or want to see or hear from them. If it is your thing God can talk to you all you want just leave me out of it. Interrupting a jury, there must be a law against that. Something about tampering with the jury!
3Methinks that good ol’ Judge Jack Robison got hisself a fistful of c-notes and a couple romps in the hay–Shazzaamm- she’s innocent, by gawd– an’ y’all jurists best acquit the poor thing.
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4Thanks, Miss Juanita Jean. Slipstream hisownself has recently been summonized to jury duty beginning in March. Now I have a wunnerful example to emulate, the great Judge Jack Robison. When I get examined as to that impartiality thing they seem to think is so important, I’ll just tell ’em “Gawd tells me who is innocent or guilty.”
Don’t imagine I will get picked for many juries . . .
5When I lived in Schertz and had to go to New Braunfels, I couldn’t get out of the town fast enough. There’s enough GOP hatred there to fill a Southern state.
6God has told me that Judge Robison needs to turn in his gavel and robe and acquaint himself with the joys of retirement. Forthwith.
7Drumpf told a pro life crowd today some babies are allowed to be born in the 9th month and that is wrong. We know someone speaks through Drumpf and that someone ain’t human.
That judge does sound like recent Drumpf appointees.
8Sam in St Paul,
That ‘New Braunfels attitude’ has been around for many decades.
The ‘GOP’ thing is part of it now, but it used to be just more of a ‘we’re not San Antonio’ pride thing. And with the former core dominant German settler demo hard-headed viewpoints (used to hear almost as much spoken German as English), it’s just a Schützenverein class thing (like the country club demo elsewhere).
Later, as New Braunfels became an expensive exurb of San Antonio, and a lot of better off white-flight types came in with the tremendous growth (escaping the Hispanic hordes of SA), they picked up the attitude and altered and amplified it in a bad way.
It’s still one of my favorite places, and you can’t beat Naegelins Bakery, Krause’s Cafe and Biergarten, Granzins BBQ, the Faust, and a few others, for top eating spots. I still miss the Tree Top Restaurant on the Comal at the San Antonio St. bridge, it was the best anywhere.
(Krauses’s has really expanded, has a large deck/garten area and parking now too, I think that they tore down the rock shop house to do it, dang it. Granzin’s moved down SA St. to a nice big place long ago, from the old walk-up window service only shack before)
http://naegelins.com/
https://www.krausescafe.com/
http://granzinsbbq.com/
Mmmm mmmm yum– Schwein raus!
9With the Stomayer health scare this morning maybe he was just auditioning for his appointment to SCOTUS by demented donnie and his cotorie of fools.
10Do you have a lot of people down there who follow the voices in their heads ?
11Courts have administrators, people who can walk into a trial and just take the judges robe and gavel and kick judicial butt out of the courtroom. Where the heck was the administrator? Was it his/her day off? As far as the judge’s decision, they normally wait until the verdict has been read and then vacate it. They know damn well they can’t interrupt a trial like that. I think its about time this judge took the voices in his head for a nice walk in the fresh air and then into a secure attic. He is not serving the community nor justice as it is.
12Sandridge–Fredericksburg is a lot like New Braunfels. Home prices are becoming out of reach for a lot of folks and at last count the total number of B & Bs were at about 700.
Oktoberfest is a zoo, with so many tourists in town the locals hole themselves up for the weekend and don’t come out until it’s safe.
The Tea Party is still going strong here. Our local state rep., Kyle Biedermann, kicked off his first term by sending out a “questionnaire” to Muslims in the state in a naked attempt at questioning their loyalty to the U.S. (What that had to do with local issues, no one knows.) Our local paper did a scathing editorial about it and the other weaselly things he’s done so far. The paper has backed the GOP guy who’s doing a primary challenge to Biedermann, and the editor is a liberal, so that tells you how bad things are.
13Dang it Sandridge you had to mention Naeglin’s. Trying to cut back on sweets here. Not gonna click on link, not gonna click on link….
14Maggie, your first sentence is a full bubble out of plumb. I don’t know of any judge in Central Texas who would let a court administrator do what you say they can do. And I don’t know of any administrators who would be so audacious.
15TexasTrailerParkTrash, The overflow from NB moved on to Frksburg during the 1840’s immigration period, rejects?
NB has the dreaded Donna Campbell, state sen, who hopes to move on up to the US Congress in Lamar Smith’s TX 21 (?, forgot the #). Teabaggers will swallow any and all RW swill from the usual propaganda apparatus.
My kids like to go up there, for the ‘ambience and wine’ I guess.
yet another baby boomer, Last time there we spent over a 100 clams (hey, it freezes OK).
16I used to have the luxury of just walking about 150ft to Naegelin’s side door, whenever. Still working it off.
Go ahead, just do it– Schwein raus!
Good Luck, Slipstream. Some other useful dodges from getting picked on a jury are:
171. Being a male, dressed in suit and tie
2. Having a college degree
3. (in Texas) Being against the death penalty
4. Having relatives in law enforcement
5. Carrying a book to read, (Fire and Fury comes to mind)
Unfortunately, I have been called for jury duty 6 times and was picked for a jury only 3.
I was notified for county and federal jury duty. Yes, in iowa we have both. My audiologist wrote both courts a nice letter and sent my audio exam findings along suggesting not to pick me unless they want the guilty to go free because I have really bad hearing-even with a hearing aid.
My suggestion to Slip is stick a thin piece of wire or Q-tip through your ear drums and you too can get off jury duty. (Uh, I am not really serious about puncturing ear drums, icyw)
18Sandridge—“The overflow from NB moved on to Frksburg during the 1840’s immigration period, rejects?”
Lol. I won’t tell my son-in-law that. He’s directly descended from one of the founding families. And he’s a police officer. 🙂
19TexasTrailerParkTrash and TWMDBS denizens,
OK, stumbled across a Texasdeutsch/Texas-German dialect word that is perfect for our homegrowed TX GOPnazis (of every rank): Stinkkatze!
Ja, it means one of those smelly little B&W boogers.
I think it’s a perfect nick for the ilk of Judge Jack, a Stinkkatze if there ever was one.
With the ‘Freethinker’ liberal history of most German immigrants you’d think that they’d have resisted the Rethugs.
20(been doing too much genealogy, the Prussian German side goes back to 1801 so far, came over from Bremen in the 1840’s)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredericksburg,_Texas
From another Wiki:
“The German settlements in Texas reflected their diversity. Even in the confined area of the Hill Country, each valley offered a different kind of German. The Llano valley had stern, teetotaling German Methodists, who renounced dancing and fraternal organizations; the Pedernales valley had fun-loving, hardworking Lutherans and Catholics who enjoyed drinking and dancing; and the Guadalupe valley had freethinking Germans descended from intellectual political refugees.”
That guy looks like kin to Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. Wouldn’t surprise me at all.
21About me trying to get out of jury duty: actually, there is a local murder trial coming up, and I would pay actual money to be on THAT jury. I would explain why, but I don’t want to make Momma blush. Of course, they’ll never let me sit on that jury.
22As a trial lawyer, I have never heard of anything so outrageous. A judge can do what is called a directed verdict if they feel the DA did not prove their case, but those are extremely rare. I had only one in all my years among several hundred jury trials. And in New Mexico we have Administration of the Courts that handle any complaints against a judge and dishes out discipline if needed.
23And he did it quick as Jack Robinson
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