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Six Gubernatorial Appointed Judges Seek To Be Elected Our Predictions: Not One Of These "Judicial Candidates" Will Be On The Ballot All Of Them Will Re-secure Their Judicial Seats Prior To The Election |
Updated April 16, 2018 |
Alan M Dershowitz
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Within Judicial Appointments On March 27, 2018 - VolusiaExposed.Com attended and video recorded the judicial meet and greet held at the Palm Coast Hilton. In attendance were the following judges: Flagler County Court Judge Melissa Moore-Stens Circuit Court Judge Mary Jolley Circuit Court Judge Leah Case Circuit Court Judge Terry Perkins Circuit Court Judge Chris France Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Blackburn Circuit Court Judge R. Lee Smith All of the above judges stated that they are running for election this coming November (2018). All but one of these seven (7) judges were gubernatorial appointments to the bench - only Judge Moore-Stens secured her judicial robes by actually running a political campaign and securing the needed votes from the citizens of her jurisdiction. We invite you to listen to the speeches that all seven (7) judges gave during the March 27th meet and greet (see videos - right of page) - and take note that six (6) of the seven (7) have employment experience within prosecutors' offices. While they (the judges) voiced opinions that this particular employment experience is a strength - we (VolusiaExposed.Com) see it as a overall weakness to our judiciary. This weakness being a lack of employment diversity within our courtrooms. In short - VolusiaExposed.Com would like to see more judges from the public defender's office being gubernatorially appointed to the bench. As per our January 17, 2018 article, VolusiaExposed.Com has a very critical view of gubernatorial judicial appointments. As is discussed in our April 22, 2016 article - the local judicial power structure has little to no faith in allowing the citizenry of Florida's Seventh Judicial Circuit to vote in their own judges.  |
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The Un-Written Rule Of Voter Disenfranchisement
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Here is what the Volusia power structure does not want YOU to know. There is an un-written rule within the judicial community that no one (another qualifiying attorney) should challenge a sitting judge for his or her judicial seat. Therefore - those that desire to be judges will tend to seek out the local power brokers in order to secure the necessary gubernatorial influences to be appointed to the bench. |
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Because these gubernatorial appointed judges are indebted to the local power structure for their appointments - and with the clear understanding that they will probably never be answerable to the local electorate - they quickly become the mindless minions of the power structure. (OUR OPINION) According to the Seventh Judicial Circuit's webpage - there are twenty-six circuit court judges - fourteen of which are gubernatorial appointments (see yellow highlights -->). Have you ever wondered why we (the electorate) are losing public access to our beaches? Why the local power brokers or local governments rarely, if ever, seem to lose a lawsuit filed against them? Well, now you know. Recently, according to a Daytona Beach News Journal article - the Town of Ponce Inlet was successful in a lawsuit that had threatened to bankrupt the city. The lawsuit had bounced around in the court system since 2010. Were we (VolusiaExposed.Com) surprised that Judge Chris France ruled in favor of Ponce Inlet... not in the least. Shortly after the March 27, 2018 judicial "meet and greet" - VolusiaExposed checked the Florida Division Of Elections Website and confirmed that four (4) of the six (6) circuit court judges attending the event had already filed their qualification / campaign paperwork. As listed above - all four (4) had no political opponent. Judicial Seat 15 within the Seventh Judicial Circuit has no incumbent judge - and we predict that the political race between Sebrina Slack and Joseph Will will prove to be an interesting one. |
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Candidate Sebrina Slack has a family connection with local law enforcement that could possibly cause her some conflict of interest concerns. If elected - she would have to manage those conflict concerns appropriately. Candidate Joseph Ryan Will has a past history with the Florida Supreme Court taking disciplinary action against him. Will's disciplinary action included admitted charges that he made "improper argument and statements in the closing argument...". These charges were attached to the prosecution of a Mr. Jerry Crew - and could be categorized as prosecutorial misconduct in some circles. We (VolusiaExposed.Com) suspect that Candidate Will also committed similar prosecutorial misconduct within the 2015 prosecution of brothers Wayne and Ray Greenlaw - as detailed in our below 2015 articles. The Show Trial Of Wayne & Ray Greenlaw Stand Your Ground Vs. Lie Your Ass Off Testifying Meets TestiLYING October 9, 2015 Local Prosecutor Comes Under Additional Scrutiny The Criminal Appeal Of Ray & Wayne Greenlaw
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