Judge Who Asked Sexual Assault Victim If She Closed Her Legs Faces Suspension
Source: Huffington Post
04/06/2019 12:19 pm ET
Superior Court Judge John Russo said he was only trying to get more information.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) An ethics committee has recommended a three-month, unpaid suspension for a New Jersey judge who told a woman she could close your legs to prevent a sexual assault.
The committee released its recommendation to the state Supreme Court Wednesday in the case of Superior Court Judge John Russo, who sits on the bench in Ocean County in southern New Jersey. He has been on administrative leave since 2017.
The woman appeared before Russo in 2016 seeking a restraining order against a man she said sexually assaulted her. According to a transcript of the exchange, when the woman described her encounter with the man, Russo asked her, Do you know how to stop somebody from having intercourse with you?
When the woman answered affirmatively and said one method would be to run away, Russo continued, Close your legs? Call the police? Did you do any of those things?
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Judge John Russo vs. women
cstanleytech
(26,432 posts)INdemo
(6,994 posts)marble falls
(58,407 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)in my opinion.
Evolve Dammit
(16,969 posts)How many Trump life-time judges like this will now endure?
SWBTATTReg
(22,442 posts)supposedly pillar of the neighborhood and courts, says something like this? I'm shaking my head...
DURHAM D
(32,628 posts)demosincebirth
(12,578 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,772 posts)Thanks for the thread Judi Lynn.
Ohiogal
(32,401 posts)He should have been fired on the spot.
Baitball Blogger
(46,883 posts)that are being rushed through the courts.
pansypoo53219
(21,053 posts)dalton99a
(82,056 posts)She also said he would stand so close to her, despite being asked not to, that she positioned chairs around her desk in order to create a physical barrier between she and Defendant Russo.
On another occasion, the suit said, he summoned her to his office, sat with his legs spread wide open and tried to get her to come closer. When she refused to get closer than five feet, he yelled at her to just leave, the suit said.
Desir also claimed he made comments she believed were motivated by racial prejudice, including asking her if all of her siblings had the same father and if her parents were married, the suit said. When he learned she had Haitian heritage, he asked her how she felt about being colonized, the suit said.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,315 posts)Demovictory9
(32,572 posts)Chellee
(2,112 posts)And just now they're thinking of giving him an unpaid suspension of 3 months? Oh well, that'll teach him.
dlk
(11,666 posts)elias7
(4,062 posts)...in similar circumstances. Not to say that he couldn't be raped....
kimbutgar
(21,380 posts)Bs on that committee. He needs to be made an example of how a judge should not be.
Nitram
(23,225 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)How's that for being a judge.
He can choke on sewage for all I care.
keithbvadu2
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Rebl2
(13,735 posts)lose his judgeship and lose license to practice law.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,028 posts)
shut his mouth.
Exotiki
(37 posts)What a disgrace.
Demovictory9
(32,572 posts)iluvtennis
(19,988 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,517 posts)"did you hold up your hands in defense?"........
I assume this man has never in his past had something horrible enough happen to him where he goes into morbid fear and frozen mode to avoid having his head beaten to a pulp.
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