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When the spotlight turns to the judge and lawyer who did not foresee a homicide coming.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Bill of Rights (Image from the public domain.) With the help of an attorney, Mark Castillo successfully convinced judges in Montgomery County, Maryland -- where our law firm sits and where I live -- to deny his wife's begging to the court to deny unsupervised visits between Mr. Castillo and their three children. Castillo called the police this past weekend to tell them he had killed all three children at the Baltimore Mariott Inner Harbor hotel where he had taken them.  In Maryland, as in so many other states, judges do not serve for life, as opposed to their federal court counterparts. District Court judges must be reappointed every ten years. Circuit Court judges -- who generally handle more serious cases than District Court judges -- must stand for reelection every fifteen years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).