A Texas state district judge reportedly told a jury that God asked him to direct them to a not-guilty verdict in a child trafficking case they were deliberating on.
Judge Jack Robison interrupted jurors’ deliberations to say God had been in touch, and told him the jury panel should not convict 32-year-old Gloria Elizabeth Romero Perez, who was accused of continuously trafficking her teenage niece from the US to Honduras to an older man.
Robison apologised to the jury for interrupting but told them: “When God tells me to do something, I gotta do it,” before recusing himself from the remainder of the proceedings, reportsthe Herald-Zeitung in New Braunfels.
It appears the panel of seven men and five women were less obedient to God, as they convicted Perez anyway, sending her to prison for 25 years for child trafficking. They acquitted her on the second charge of selling a child.
Perez’s defence lawyer Sylvia Cavazo told AP she would be seeking a re-trial. Cavazo said she spoke about the incident with Robison in his chambers afterward, and the judge confirmed that God ‘spoke’ to him and that he did the right thing.
Robison has been reprimanded by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct before. The commission found Robison “exceeded the scope of his authority and failed to comply with the law” for jailing a man for contempt of court after he called the judge a “fool” during a child custody case, according to the Statesman.
Robison is scheduled to return to the bench on January 31.
And which god would that be, judge?
LOL………………
I KNOW RIGHT??????????
Was one of the “older men” this girl was trafficked to ,, the JUDGE????
because thats the only reason i see for this outright stupidity
…and yet another reason we have a separation of church and state. Somebody quick… put a Black and Decker drill to this idiot’s forehead and let’s see if there’s anything in there.
I’m with EoS on this one…either the judge or someone he knows is the older customer.
There’s an unspoken message here.
It doesn’t matter what is legal or lawful
The legal society is sending a message.
We control this world…
Because we are boots on the ground for the adversary.
Aka Satan…..
Or ask….
How can the 9th district court tell the commander and chef to f off.
Pretty simple…
They are the high priestesses and priests.
In the temple of Set.
Ahh hey
I just heard from God
And he said for you to go straight to prison Mr Judge
Best follow orders
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Judge-facing-complaints-over-trying-to-sway-jury-12512826.php
http://www.statesman.com/news/crime–law/texas-judge-interrupts-jury-says-god-told-him-defendant-not-guilty/ZRdGbT7xPu7lc6kMMPeWKL/
HEY ANGEL! 😀
WOULD have to be a TEXAS judge, wouldn’t it. 🙄
You doing okay, dear one?
“When God tells me to do something, I gotta do it,”
Then why didn’t you record it on your phone so we could ALL hear it?
New Braunfels, eh? Not surprised at all… if that kinda verdict woulda happened out here the judge wouldna made it out of the courthouse alive…
Many years ago a local Sheriff murdered his wife but was found not guilty (no way was he not guilty! He either murdered her or she strangled herself with a rope tied behind her bedpost)…he had to flee the area for about ten years before the locals forgot all about this dude….no really, he nearly didn’t make it out of the courthouse alive… and, last I heard, after he married someone else (a Hispanic woman), apparently the locals did remember this dude and he and his new wife had to flee again. The murder happened in 1985…he returned around 1995, and quickly had to leave again, and has not returned.
but unfortunately he is probably still alive
little we can say about his dead wife, and maybe his next dead wife
and he must have been able to hide from his guilt , too bad the next town etc didnt run him out
Texas is the last bastion of hope, and it’s starting to go to hell.