One thing that we all could agree on! ( Clerks Office)
We all have experienced the Clerk's Office in action; lost files, paperwork that never makes the file, and countless other errors. This Blog contains a lot of information on Judges and how things run. Judges, Lawyers and the Public can all agree that the Clerk's Office needs some fixing.
Please comment on the situation, so whoever becomes the next Chief Judge can start fixing the problem.
Like anything can be done to fix the problems in that office. It's worse than it ever was under Lockwood, and all our Clerk does is wander the halls looking for people that he can talk to. It's a total mess. You'd have to completely revamp the office.
What happens when you click the pic?
Seriously resembles Jabba the Hut in Star Wars.
hey i talked to him the last time i was at the court house. we all know that the corruption is so deep there and if the media had the guts, it should have, they could do story after story and demand that gov take some action. at minimum clean house and lets start holding people to a higher standard. i mean we can't even get the media to go after judges for rape or a crazy lawyer, marilyn B lindsey for accusing 3 broward county judges, including the chief judge of rape. look people would love to see judges go to jail if they raped an attorney or an attorney have her license taken away and maybe jail time for trying to destroy the lives of judges. what more could the media want from a story. can u imagine the notoriety a reporter would get for this story. the fact that they are afraid of it tends to tell me the rape happened.
Give it a rest Lindsey.
Recently had a defendant with a traffic infraction received in August 2006. Received first court notice for him in late May setting a pretrial last week. My initial pleadings were filed in Sept,2006 (I have a date stamped copy). Much to my surprise, the file reflected a D6 and late fees even though no court date was ever previously set. When i moved to dismiss the tickets for speedy, the clerk in room 380 along with the magistrate gave me an attitude,and then reluctantly granted my motion. When I inquired about lifting the D6, waiving the wrongfully imposed late fees and issuing an order that reflected that the drivers license was suspended in error, the magistrate gave me an attitude, told me he didn't have time then to do so and to wait till the end of the docket. Needless to say, I told him what I thought about that and proceeded to the clerk's office. After about 30 minutes, the problems were resolved. While the clerk's office screwed this up royally, the supervisor I dealt with was very accomodating in resolving their mistake. I wish I could say the same thing for the magistrate.
Keith - If you expect any improvement in the attitude of the magistrate, you need to tell everyone his or her name. If they know they will get exposed on this blog, maybe next time they will not cop an attitude.
A far too often repeated secenario
glad to see ur still there wit intelligent remarks
I guess the magistrate can't figure out that that's his or her job. The more attention that is brought to the specific people that are part of the problems, the better chance we have of providing answers to many of the problems plaguing our judiciary and clerks office. These are public servants. If they don't take pride in performing their duties, make them do their jobs at least.
we havent had a great clerk since clyde heath.ed kennedy was from the private sector and had the skill to run the place but got beat by a political hack with no management experience-just another bureaucrat laying sideways lapping up taxpayer money from the govt trough.
Judge Gold appears to be very unhappy with the clerk's office. He makes a comment a lot of times when there is a mistake on the docket. Maybe he can form a committee or something.
The position of magistrate leaves little room for attitude. Tell them to leave that at home and earn their keep or we will get someone to replace them that will. It's time these people realize that their not celebrities. The citizens of this county pay them to do perform a function, an important one involving people's lives and incomes, and if they have a problem with their attitudes, they are really not needed and become a big part of the problem. They had better realize that other people can do their jobs better and it's not a job for life any more.
gold is too busy planning parties
Your comment describes fully what we have here in Broward at every level, from the clerk up to the judges siting on the bench
It's a party allot of the judges won't attend. Does Mark feel left out of something that he has to come up with a stupid idea like this? Typical.
Sorry Guys but when you have different entities, a Judge can't tell the Clerk's Office or BSO what to do. Way to many politics.
I think Gold should run for Chief Judge. He's smarter than the other candidates (and his wife is even smarter than him) and he's approachable. Maybe he could straighten out this good 'ole mess.
We should have voted Sandra Roberts in office with the Clerk's Office.
Yeah, it's like I can't or won't come up with any ideas to clean up the junk tumbling off the bench, but, yeah, that's it, I'll have a party. That's how serious he seems to be looking at what we've seen in the papers and television. Good idea Gold. Shows how much you care about what's going on in the judiciary.
VERY TELLING
Gold for chief judge... Nothing would ever get done. He'd be to busy planing a party. Sounds more like it could be a going away party for somebody...
Another judge perhaps?
Judge Sandra "D" for instance?
Why aren't any of you guys talking about the Judicial Assistants. I am really tired of their attitude. We can't get our work done with these girls not answering the phones and not knowing what the hell they are doing.
If us Legal Assistants don't get your help in cleaning up the Judicial Assistants as well, then the jobs will never be done right. They might wear the robe but the girls run the office.
I think a chief judge can accomplish a lot if he wants to. These guys all have to work together now. The old days it was us against them, now a smart, hardworking chief can get a lot done.
Best post in the history of JAAB.
Question, why does every other clerk office provide public internet access to court dockets, yet Broward requires you to pay for a "premium access" case search? Why does the public have to pay for information every other circuit provides for free? Where does this money go? Anyone? Second, why is every employee at the clerk's office in need of an enema?
Why is every office in Broward a mess? Overcrowded jails, cluck's office, unhappy PDs, miserable State Attys, insane clown posse judges?
You must be the same person that made a comment a few blogs ago about the J.A.'s. 90% of the J.A's are very efficient, nice and go out of their way to help people. You must think you are the most important person calling. J.A.'s receive on the average 50 calls or more a day. Setting hearings answering stupid questions from either attorney's or their assistants, and a lot of times when they call they don't have the information (i.e. case number, def's name, how much time they need for a hearing) ready. Maybe it's you that has the attitude pal.
They are afraid of Transparency and Technology=Transparency. The judges are only interested in keeping the status quo; their jobs, their work assignments, some closer to where they live than others, their workloads to a minimum, career advancement, their salaries and benefits, and their own personal agendas they don't want anybody else to now about. That will mean they will oppose anything that they view as a threat to these things. That is why they don't want change and that is why they will probably vote for Lynch as the new Chief Judge. He represents no change from Dale and what we've had all these years. I'd be surprised if anything else happened in that regard. It's all related to self interest. What they don't get is that change is coming anyway no matter what is thrown in its path in order to slow it down. And the judges that are enlightened enough to know this are feared and kept from making a difference in what we've seen this last year by the ones that continue to pursue their political careers to the detriment of the judiciary as a whole. It's a very simple equation really. Sad, but simple.
Sounds pretty on target to me
I agree with you whole heartedly. Four judges I know of have been involved in covering up a criminal conspiracy, two of these four judges have already been admonished for other incidents this past year. It is also time that the media start paying some attention to the absolute corruption in family court and the court appointed paid GALs, as well as the court appointed Psychologist, and lawyers, boy are they all in bed with each other. There is a case coming up in family court next week in which not only does the spouse have an attorney, but Vicky Plant who is an attorney GAl also has an attorney, and the court psychologist is bringing their attorney. Just who is footing this bill? I bet my bottom dollar that the parent who has the lawyer who has a lot of money already has the judge, Vicky and the court appointed psychologist in their pocket.The GAL and the psychologist often work as a tag team to gang up against one parent to do their dirty work and double bill. What scum. It is about time that Governor Crist call an investigation into Broward court.
A judge should always be courteous and patient, but even when they aren't, anyone who has graduated from law school knows that a lawyer should always be respectful of the court. On those extremely rare occasions where it is necessary to disagree with the judge, such as in order to protect one's client's rights, it should be done as politely and respectfully as possible. It sounds as if the magistrate did not handle this well, but Mr. Seltzer writing that "needless to say, I told him what I thought about that" is far worse. It should be "needless to say, I kept my opinion to myself."