Ethics
Choose’s ‘disparaging’ courtroom remarks publicly reproved by disciplinary fee
A Los Angeles Superior Court docket choose who made disparaging remarks and interrupted litigants in courtroom was lately publicly admonished by the state’s judicial disciplinary physique for the second time. (Picture from Shutterstock)
A Los Angeles Superior Court docket choose who made disparaging remarks and interrupted litigants in courtroom was lately publicly admonished by the state’s judicial disciplinary physique for the second time.
The California Fee on Judicial Efficiency centered on 4 2024 proceedings involving Los Angeles Superior Court docket Choose Thomas J. Griego.
The fee famous that Griego’s conduct included “interrupting litigants after they tried to reply his questions; making disparaging, gratuitous remarks, like repeatedly telling a self-represented litigant {that a} case that was not earlier than him was ‘nugatory’ …; abruptly leaving the courtroom in the course of proceedings; and instructing a courtroom worker to ‘speak to the girl.’”
In keeping with coverage by the Metropolitan News-Enterprise, the fee stated the jurist had dedicated misconduct to his administrative duties after not responding to a preliminary investigation letter despatched final Might.
Griego argued that prescribed medicine that he was taking contributed to his demeanor in courtroom. In 2017, Griego, who has served on the courtroom since 2014, obtained an advisory letter for independently investigating the scene of a visitors accident and failure to reveal his receipt of ex parte data and disqualify himself.
9 members of the fee voted for public admonishment this week.
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