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FEAR AND OPPRESSION IN JUVENILE COURT

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

"DEMANDS FOR RIGID CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE"....."UNREASONABLE AND ARBITRARY DICTATES"...."AN ATMOSPHERE OF OPPRESSION"...A Soviet Gulag? No. President's Bush's White House? Not quite.Broward? Perhaps, but not in this context. No, those were the words of Retired Circuit Court Judge Tom Peterson onthe atmosphere in Juvenile Court engendered by ousted Chief Judge Cindy "The Tsar" Lederman.Strong words from a very well respected member of the bench about a fellow wearer of the robe.The title of the post links to Peterson's letter to the Herald.Peterson said this about life under Lederman:Unfortunately, she has done so while simultaneously creating an atmosphere of oppression and fear among those who work there. Many lawyers and judges, myself included, left the juvenile justice system rather than submit to her demands for rigid conformity and obedience to her sometimes quite unreasonable and arbitrary dictates...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on July 18, 2009 (boomark / email).