Letter to Chief Justice: response too response

January 16, 2012

Dear Mr. Finke,

I am writing in response to your letter dated August 5, 2011, which was in response to my letter dated June30, 2011, which I addressed to the present Chief Justice. I have enclosed your letter to me in order to refresh your memory.

I understand  the Assigned Judges Program and its purpose Mr. Finke and I really don't have a problem the set rate of pay for an assigned judge or even the implied purpose of the program.
What I and lots of others do have a problem with, is that rate being paid continuously for more than 15 years to any one retired judge; your assertion that this is somehow fiscally advantageous, is absurd.

I am familiar with the process for getting an assigned judge to a particular county,you see, my interest, research, letter writing and information gathering did not start the Day before I wrote to the Chief justice. This process is an obligatory formality and does not change the fact that Judge halpin is not temporary, technicalities notwithstanding.

The Judicial branch has done and "end around" the constitution by placing its hit men in robes on our family court benches under the guise of the Assigned Judges Program, and offered them endless payola to do its bidding, but we are supposed to trust the Chief justice to punish her own cronies.

Judge Halpin is on the bench by way of a shady program, at best, and he is complained about to your "AOC" and the local presiding, yet he remains, unrecorded, playing fast and loose with the rights of the citizens; he does what he wants, when he wants to the detriment of the people who's lives he is destroying.

I am sure you are aware by now that this issue has taken root and is gaining strength with people well versed in law.
You may want to consider removing halpin before this becomes something you can no longer keep quiet.

Please do not patronize me Mr. Finke, we both know what is really going on.

Thank you, Robert Hovey