<story><title>Appeals court denies judicial immunity to judge who personally searched home</title><url>https://ij.org/press-release/victory-appeals-court-unanimously-denies-judicial-immunity-to-west-virginia-judge-who-personally-searched-home-ordered-items-removed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>What I don&amp;#x27;t understand (from watching the video from outside the house) is why the cop helped the judge enter the house after the owner of the house pointed out she didn&amp;#x27;t have a warrant, and didn&amp;#x27;t prevent the ex from taking thiings from the house.&lt;p&gt;I would have expected- naively, of course- that once it was pointed out that the judge was trespassing, didn&amp;#x27;t have a warrant, and wasn&amp;#x27;t allowed to do this, the cop would have stopped her.</text></item><item><author>ddoolin</author><text>Most relevant bit:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; During divorce proceedings between Matthew and his ex-wife, Raleigh County family-court judge Louise Goldston personally forced her way into Matthew’s home under threats of arrest to search for items that were in dispute. Accompanied by Matthew’s ex-wife, her attorney, and a bailiff (among others), Goldston walked barefoot through the house, ordering Matthew’s ex-wife to seize DVDs, yearbooks, and pictures off the wall. Some of the items didn’t even belong to Matthew’s ex-wife. And when Matthew tried to record the encounter, the judge threatened him with arrest.&lt;p&gt;This sounds like the ex-wife was close friend with the judge and this was very personal. Pretty insane either way though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qingcharles</author><text>LOL. No officer wants to fight a contempt charge from an angry judge. A judge ordered me arrested without issuing a warrant and it cost me three years. Only yesterday did I try a FOIA to get a copy of the non-existent warrant, here was the reply:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Please be advised that we conducted a diligent search based on the information you provided. However, no records were found in response to your request.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Appeals court denies judicial immunity to judge who personally searched home</title><url>https://ij.org/press-release/victory-appeals-court-unanimously-denies-judicial-immunity-to-west-virginia-judge-who-personally-searched-home-ordered-items-removed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>What I don&amp;#x27;t understand (from watching the video from outside the house) is why the cop helped the judge enter the house after the owner of the house pointed out she didn&amp;#x27;t have a warrant, and didn&amp;#x27;t prevent the ex from taking thiings from the house.&lt;p&gt;I would have expected- naively, of course- that once it was pointed out that the judge was trespassing, didn&amp;#x27;t have a warrant, and wasn&amp;#x27;t allowed to do this, the cop would have stopped her.</text></item><item><author>ddoolin</author><text>Most relevant bit:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; During divorce proceedings between Matthew and his ex-wife, Raleigh County family-court judge Louise Goldston personally forced her way into Matthew’s home under threats of arrest to search for items that were in dispute. Accompanied by Matthew’s ex-wife, her attorney, and a bailiff (among others), Goldston walked barefoot through the house, ordering Matthew’s ex-wife to seize DVDs, yearbooks, and pictures off the wall. Some of the items didn’t even belong to Matthew’s ex-wife. And when Matthew tried to record the encounter, the judge threatened him with arrest.&lt;p&gt;This sounds like the ex-wife was close friend with the judge and this was very personal. Pretty insane either way though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giantg2</author><text>&amp;quot;is why the cop helped the judge enter the house after the owner of the house pointed out she didn&amp;#x27;t have a warrant,&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Because judges can ruin cops lives too. There&amp;#x27;s virtually no oversight of judges. They granted themselves such secrecy that even if their disciplinary files have exculpatory evidence, you&amp;#x27;re not allowed to subpoena it. And the discipline is usually only related to egregious acts of misconduct. Stuff like incompetence or bending the rules or being inconsistent is basically ignored.&lt;p&gt;Plenty of videos online of judges being let out of reaffic stops and such while being assholes about it too.</text></comment>