Delirium? Ya Think?
Meet Texas Judge Jack Robison. Robison is a state district court judge in New Braunfels, Comal County.
I want to tell you a little story about Judge Jack. Judge Jack was overseeing the trial of a woman charged with sex trafficking her niece. Judge Jack entered the jury room while the jury was deliberating, twice because once was not enough.
Judge Jack Robison said it was God who told him to try to get jurors to return a not-guilty verdict for a Buda woman who was accused of trafficking her teenage niece, according to the Herald-Zeitung.
“When God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it,” he said to the jurors, in defense of his actions.
They found her guilty anyway and sentenced her to 25 years.
The judge blamed his statements on a medical condition and provided letters to the commission that said he was affected by “a temporary, episodic medical condition referred to as a ‘delirum,'” the Express-News reported.
The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a public (typo corrected) warning. Wow, I bet that hurt. He’s back on the bench.
Of course, he’s a Republican. God talks to Republican judges. Democratic judges hear from John Marshall and Earl Warren.
God working in mysterious ways, long held belief. God working in delerious ways… not so much.
Except if God provided that bottle of Jack Daniels in his desk drawer.
1Oh my goodness! Should that not be tampering with the jury?
2Dementia. Have seen it before. People showing up where they shouldn’t be despite being warned off. What the heck is the court administrator doing to earn a paycheck? The administrator has the right to walk into the courtroom and take the gavel and the robe away.
3Wow, being a gynecologist i truly understand how bad a “pubic” warning can be. We don’t even have antibiotics that will treat that stuff.
4Delirium as in Delirium tremens?
“Delirium tremens (DTs) is a rapid onset of confusion usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol. When it occurs, it is often three days into the withdrawal symptoms and lasts for two to three days.”
5Why is this man still in a position of power on the bench? Is there any level of professional misconduct that cannot be excused, or mildly reprimanded, if you are a powerful white male in this country? We shall see…
6Son of Sam. Was there ever a barking dog that lived who barked as much as their imaginary one? We can help barking dogs, but there doesn’t seem to be any cure for religious wingnuts and their imaginary friends.
By doggie, it does exist: https://www.texasbar.com/
7Maybe its not about her. Maybe he just has a real fatherly feeling for her goat.
8I have a notion if we were privy to all the things God Almighty In Heaven Above tells the good judge he’s gotta do, there’s a good chance the judge is selective in his conduct.
9I lived in New Braunfels for 20 years. It is a beautiful place full of idiots.
10Alan – I do that typo all the damn time. Expect it to happen again.
11Speaking of that very same typo, years ago the parks and recreation department of a small town in Oregon published the swimming pool schedule for the summer. One block of time was intended to be called “public swim.”
12There had to be more to that commission evidence than that. Just dropping “delirium” like that with no context would have prompted a bunch more questions. It’s like saying, “I was feeling homicidal, but I’m better now,” nobody would let it go at that. Delirious from what? Alcohol withdrawal like Micr said? High fever? Opioid abuse? Head injury? None of these possibilities should have allowed him to return to the bench without a metric s-ton of medical evidence that he was recovered. Somebody on the judicial review board was delinquent in their duty.
13@Miz JJ
In the old days, the municipal court clerk made a stencil for complaints for the common offenses adjudicated in her court: speeding, PI, DC, stop sign, FTA, etc. The language of PI changed slightly in 1972 and so she did a new stencil, entitled Pubic Intoxication, and ran off 500 mimeograph copies. Tasty!
14Here’s photo of the judge!
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/article/Texas-judge-disciplined-after-claiming-God-told-13664417.php
Why does the word sexual pervert come to mind after looking at the judge’s picture
15The judge must be a Democrat. Everyone KNOWS Republicans avoid judicial activism at all cost. Don’t cha know, or don’t cha.
16One of the first things they taught me in law school: A students become professors, B students make a lot of money and C students are properly addressed as “Your Honor”
17Sounds like this judge is a soul mate with the virginia judge who just gave manaford a petite slap on the wrist.
18Get used to these legal jokes from the idealogues that now dominate the us Judiciary.