Saturday, February 09, 2013
Meanwhile - in Illinois - Cook County Judge Cynthia Brim
William A. Jacobson recently posted this on the Legal Insurrection blog:
"Last fall Judge Cynthia Brim [received] barely the necessary 'Yes' votes to keep the job that she has been suspended from–with pay–for months.
This week Brim heads to court–not a a judge–but as a defendant. And the Chicago Sun-Times says she plans to plead insanity to a misdemeanor battery charge.
Once judges in Illinois are elected–they only have to face a retention vote every six years."
The Cook County judge was found not guilty by reason of insanity in connection with a shoving incident a involving a sheriff's deputy... ...
