http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/Articles/2014/12/01/Judge-Reassigned-12-1-14.aspx

This interesting article describes how on Judge, Judge Chevres, has jailed 44 courtroom members of the public in a relatively short time—far outnumbering her peers.  8 men were jailed on “direct contempt” for having pants worn too low!

We all know that Gloria Sykes was handcuffed when court connected attorneys wanted to grab her money and got Judge Stuart to do it–direct criminal contempt, when far better measures could be used first (fines, seizure of other property such as her car, cell phone, whatever) but it absolutely abhorred to arrest and hold a member of the public–not a litigant in the case, to chain them to a table in the ante room of the judge.  It is even far worse to have your deputies then threaten to gather up your pets and have them euthanized at the City Pound!  Such news was shocking to me, and I wondered how long it would be before the story got out and Judge Stuart would be taken down for such behavior.

Now we have a judge that jails courtroom members of the public for low riding jeans!

I have to admit, though, the chaining of Gloria to a chair and threatening her pets with death was fairly beyond the pale of anything I had ever heard at the Daley Center.

And to top it off, when I FOIA’d the Sherriff’s office for an “incident report”, ala Sheriff Dart style of favoring those who favor him, that had disappeared too!

How many people will suffer under such an oppressive system, and how many reports will be strangely missing when FOIA’d.

JoAnne

PS–thanks to Ken Ditkowsky for sending this article along