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COHEN/BACKMAN BROWEIRD SUMMARY

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Ok. lets summarize- because to keep track of those wild and crazy judges north of the border you need a scorecard and a blogger named Rumpole. Judge Dale Cohen has a massive JQC complaint filed against him after he set out to intimidate a lawyer who had filed a lawsuit to remove Cohen's wife from the judicial ballot in the last election.During one hearing, Judge Cohen called his wife to testify as a witness. The lawyer objected to being put in an impossible situation to which Judge Dale Cohen responded with this brilliant judicial quip: "You mean if I rule in your favor I don't get dinner tonight?"Say what you want about Judge Cohen, but he knows where his chickens are roasted. The Judge is also...how do we say this politely? "Challenged" when it comes to the use of commonly known sayings or aphorisms; to wit he said this twice during the prelude to the hearing, in response to the attorney positing the various problems of cross examining the judge's spouse: "We'll approach that bridge when we get to it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on February 27, 2010 (boomark / email).