The Black Robe Mafia: How Incompetent and Corrupt Judges Destroy the Community and What You Can Do
The Black Robe Mafia: How Incompetent and Corrupt Judges Destroy the Community and What You Can Do About It
Community Forum on Judicial Accountability
Tuesday, April 10 at 6:30 p.m.
All Nations Church
1515 E 23rd Street Minneapolis
The actions of judges can change the course of your life, take away your freedom, and destroy your family. Yet there is little accountability for judges who are corrupt, incompetent or unfair.
Minnesota has the highest rate of overprosecutions and overconvictions of people of color of any state in the country.
Blacks in Minnesota are nine times more likely than whites to be sentenced to prison for the same offense.
The juvenile justice system seems designed to railroad poor youth and youth of color permanently into the criminal justice system. Children are not permitted to receive the assistance of their parents before accepting deals or pleading guilty to offenses they may not even understand and that will affect them for the rest of their lives.
Custody determinations are arbitrary and are based more on the biases of particular judges than facts about the child’s best interest.
The Board of Judicial Standards rarely takes action to address judicial conduct. Complaints from community members are ignored. Lawyers who complain about judicial misconduct face retaliation.
The Bar Association, the Quie Commission, Common Cause, and other forces are working overtime at the legislature to take away the one tool the community has for dealing with bad judgesthe right to choose our judges by election.
We don't have to continue to accept bully judges and a lack of accountability. Join us to learn about the issue and what you can do to help.
This forum sponsored by Judicial Election Empowerment Partnership (JEEP), a nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals committed to judicial accountability and justice system reform. For more information, contact Communities United Against Police Brutality at 612-874-7867 or www.cuapb.org
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