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Media Under Attack by  Santa Clara County  Courts

7/9/2016

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In conduct that feels oh so familiar with the McCarthy Era, Santa Clara County Court insiders continue to try to lash out at reporters and members of the media critical of the courts and their use of pubic funds.

​As previously reported, individual judges  in Santa Clara County, especially in family  law cases, appear to be abusing their power and authority to retaliate against litigants who are  suspected of being  critical of the Santa Clara County Courts, especially  when those litigants are believed to associate with the media, or other groups supportive of First Amendment Rights. 

When the  Judge Persky controversy  exploded on the national stage, Santa Clara Court officials  went to work attempting to seek  out  and silence reporters and media outlets critical of the courts or the many programs the courts oversee. 

Santa Clara County's public information officer, Joe Macaluso, (JMacaluso@scscourt.org ), appears to not have worked merely to provide public information about the county's courts, during that time. Instead Mr. Macaluso appears to have , on his own, or as directed by his court bosses, attempted to thwart public records requests and media requests, in an attempt to  deter the media from exposing systemic problems in Santa Clara County Courts. 

​Mainstream media has not been deterred . The Metro News just published a scathing article on the court's misuse of interpreters. In a county with the language  diversity issues Santa Clara County faces, this is simply disgraceful.

Interpreters are just the tip of the iceberg. The practices and policies Santa Clara County Courts are employing  are so harmful to the integrity of our legal system.

​Since 2010 , Santa Clara County residents became outraged after a  trustee of a disabled man was allowed by the Santa Clara County Courts. To silence the criticism, the county formed committees with politicians like Jim Beall, and included judges like Mary Ann Grilli. Santa Clara County presiding judges and top court administrators knew Santa Clara  was one of the worst in the state where   probate and receiver issues were at hand.

​After the county  formed  a  committee, placating the public, Santa Clara County courts went immediately  went back to their old policies and practices ,  using unscrupulous trustees, referees, custody experts , CPAs and vocational examiners , who continue to impose court corruption on the county's  elderly,  poor, undereducated   and children who are trapped  in the probate and divorce cases, where the county has a monopoly.


​When litigants speak up, judges retaliate more. In a 2015  case before Judge Towery , a women tried to speak up about  the money her husband was stealing in a business as he sent her into bankruptcy and dragged out the divorce.

​Judge Towery, in  every abuse of power and discretion imaginable, defined the couple's date of separation ( when it was not legally before him ) , and ran with the date claimed by husband and his lawyer,  8 years earlier than  the date claimed by  the self represented mother.  No notice, no trial , no evidence, and with the bang of his corrupt little gavel and in violation of every family code imaginable, Judge Towery singlehandedly  terminated  the wife's right to long term support or proper business valuations, sending her to bankruptcy and her ex husband to the country club.

​In case after case, Santa Clara County Courts consistently demonstrate a willingness to impose ​gender  bias, financial  misconduct and gross violations of due process on local litigants. The county's judges do with  such zeal , that the public trust in the legal system has been vacated .

​Judges who have forgotten they serve the people , and our greater society,  have abandoned their oath with such an  effervescence that they must be stopped and reeled in by media scrutiny  which serves the public interest. .  

​A  federal case is set to be heard in  San Francisco later this month. where the issue of media and litigant rights to free speech and association  with groups  critical of Santa Clara County courts will take center stage.  In  that case Santa Clara County Courts have gone to extraordinary  efforts and legal expense to keep "emails and blogs " that disparage the courts, out of  the public record and away from the prospective jury.  

​Now that the Judge Persky controversy involving the  Stanford rapist sentence  is in every mainstream outlet in  country, as well as thousands of emails and blogs, we wonder just how Santa Clara County Court arrogance will continue to keep the corrupt mismanagement  and decades of misconduct out of the media, and away from federal court oversight .


15 Comments
The Unknown Victims
7/9/2016 02:17:10 pm

I'm a victim of the Santa Clara Superior Family Court. Many years of sacrificing everything I have and don't have to find out that there is no justice and no accountability for the judges. Judges change frequently for cases where new judges make decision on cases that they do not have a clue about. My child unfortunately is going to have mental issues for the rest of their life due to the family court system only looking out for their own well being and not that of the child. Good for them they they keep perpetuating the development of screwed up children that will grow up so unstable due to court's negative influences as adults they will facility more revenue for the court system. Their is no motivation or desire for the Santa Clara family court system to reduce family conflict because then they would lose their budget if no need to help anyone.

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disgusted
7/9/2016 02:54:24 pm

Contra Costa Superior Court is guilty of same Gang Raping of the innocent by misogynistic, run amok judges and attorneys in concert, not scrutinized by CJP or Gov. agencies and industries w/special interests because it's intentionally set up for Financial/Emotional/Physical/Psychological R A P E!, not only of independant women of their children, inheritance and futures, but ignorant tax payers hard earned CASH.

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marilynne earls
7/9/2016 05:10:29 pm

In 2011, I filed a judicial council form requesting permission to file an appeal of a VL order and denial of motion to vacate order void for lack of jurisdiction. THE FILED REQUEST DISAPPEARED FROM THE COURT, then I was noticed that my appeal was denied for failing to seek permission to file. On 5/28/16 again on 6/19/16 I ordered transcript of that hearing and still no response about costs for it. Worried it will be stalled until 5yr date and destroyed while I wait. Worried this post will cost me bias in SC FC.

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Jane Q link
7/9/2016 05:43:10 pm

Document your request by doing it through the court website, and print it. Then complain to the county transcription supervisor, then file a complaint with the state agency overseeing court reporters

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disgusted link
7/9/2016 06:02:24 pm

you can complain until the cows come home but the system is rigged and the complaining process is nothing but a black hole created to keep us compliant while the statute of limitations run out. it will disappear and your documentation will be thrown out and mean nothing. documented anyway.

Jose Castaneda, aka, James Blume USMC Hon. Per court order of APJ Daniel Buckley link
7/9/2016 08:01:22 pm

Unfortunately, The court system's M.O. nowadays is to deny self represented litigants Due Process in the Exclusive Country Club known as Sup. Court.
Just like the Pols system is rigged, and so do the court system. It is called Judicial R.I.C.O.

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Mother
7/10/2016 12:38:17 am

Complaint really does not get anywhere until the criminal organization is taken down.

I complained to the Bar Association, Commission of Judicial Performance. This Santa Clara County you can't even contact the police, sheriffs including the DA's they are all part of the organization. It's insane. This Santa Clara County is close to been doomed. People waited too long for the situation to get this bad. It has spread like a virus or cancer. You try to follow the law and do things in accordance with the law. It backfires because this organization has spread so far.

The only current bright side is Aaron Persky's case has opened up a door. Even that you tried to ruin it by making comments Aaron Persky isn't that bad for your own agenda which does not help at all.
Aaron Persky is the entrance.

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Jane Q link
7/10/2016 08:17:31 pm

We didn't say we support Persky and the sentencing of Brock Turner, we said he is not the worst. In Santa Clara County Courts judges sit every day and so outrageously abuse their discretion and power , it is criminal . They take children for made up reasons, they criminalize parents merely seeking a divorce and they drag out cases and churn fees to rates that are the highest in the country.

Persky was one of the judges involved in the 2012 case where a felon father ( who had a lawyer ) was awarded custody and the mother was left penniless and without a lawyer to fight for her daughter. The father drugged , raped and killed his own daughter , and Santa Clara COunty Courts said " we missed the signs".

They don't miss the signs. The only signs they see are dollar signs to corrupt lawyers, CPAs , custody experts and others. Persky and other rotten judges like Towery, and Grilli , and Zayner and Clark and Pierce have been subjecting women to rape, emotional harm and financial loss for decades, day in and day out , where was the public outrage for those women and children? And what the hell are the supervising judges like Emede , and Pichon doing???? Nothing, even though it is their job to control judicial misconduct and protect public trust in the legal system. They lost that trust long ago and should be fired , not paid with tax payer funds !

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mother
7/11/2016 07:20:36 pm

Your are a disgrace Jane Q. What more do you want. PERSKY TRAFFICKD A LITTL GIRL TO A PEDOPHILE SO SHE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED OVER AND OVER. WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM ???

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disgusted
8/7/2016 12:19:19 pm

I believe the point is there are many many horrific occasions to accuse a judge of being the worst. simply stated it indicates judges have a premeditated plan. it's organized and it's criminal and has been ongoing and just recently brought to real light with the persky case, and you are right, it is an entrance as well, thankfully and with that said it can also be looked on as a distraction. rape, child trafficking, murder, pilfering, bankrupting and leaving good Americans destroyed is nothing to sneeze at. everyone has a valid story of devastation who is posting here. this site is a service to you, to me and whomever wishes to not remain silent as these players would like us to be. my own daughter was sexually exploited as a baby. as the grandson of a California mayor he was let free and never spent a day in jail for his obscenity and criminal pathology. decades later, as planned, his first born is a real estate attorney who moved to my home town of Danville California, cosy-corners with Terence Doyle, the Mayor of that town's son, and my former attorney I had used against her father then fired because he tried to sell me out and feed my child back to the wolves(no offense to wolves). it took me years of True Grit alone to keep my family safe and yes get my hard one child support order enforced- I needed to feed them. Currently 28 yrs later both claim family bragging rights to historic houses with their family namesakes, one in Placerville and one in Danville and no coincidence in my view. These people ruin lives, they go to prominant law schools and are alumni at prominant universities and come out psychopathic predators and they're all guilty. and yes money and power are at issue. we all deserve the right to tell our stories and get Justice and if not do what we want to remain current and not forgotten while the persky case is gleaning most of the media attention unfairly keeping focus away from The Bigger Picture which is Rampant Corruption Exposure and ALL others who have been screaming out for help and justice for themselves, their families and want their own precious children safe have been virtually ignored for decades. kudos to this sites creators, and kudos to all who have been instrumental and stalwart during all issues regarding judge persky, judge Sugiyama, the governor and the rest who are all culpable. ALL the rest of the corrupt judges who commit any kind of crime or misconduct for profit OR POWER on the taxpayers dime deserve equal and swift scrutiny. ALL need to be flushed out and their corrupt enterprises exposed and dissolved, and quicker than any California divorce or Probate case.

Jane Q link
7/10/2016 09:10:03 pm

One would hope Persky would not abuse the system more with the world watching, apparently with his tenure solid, he is not worried !
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/stanford-sexual-assault-trial-judge-persky

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mother
7/12/2016 12:25:20 am

All I read about in your weekly newspaper is about money probate people bankrupt. You must be a very materialistic person.

There isnt anything as heinous as CRIME against children. Money is ABSOLUTLEY NOT ANYTHING COMPARED TO THE LIFE OF A CHILD!!!
YOU barely touch the subject VINCENT CHIARELLO because your so busy going after Judges who money.


You can continue your agenda going after Judges

who have robbed people.

A human beings life cannot be bought with money. You don't have any respect for the lives of children.

Children lives cannot be bought by money.

Money comes and goes.

I thought I was dealing with cold hearted criminals.
You not a criminal but very cold hearted like they are.

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Marcy Parks
7/12/2016 01:19:58 pm

If you want to win a case in either Judge Grilli's courtroom or in front of Judge Towery, you hire Brad Bough or Leah Amini.

I hear the network is bigger.

Motions will be won that will hinder your spouse from obtaining assets or having a meaningful relationship with their children.

You CAN'T lose.

Want proof?

Just look at their bullet proof track records.

What can your spouse do?

NOTHING!!!!!

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Marcy Parks
7/12/2016 03:02:07 pm

Brad Baugh is the ultimate sleaze lawyer. All he cares about is collecting fees. He does NOT care what happens to children. He does NOT care what the aftermath looks like.

I hope he gets disbarred and loses all his money.

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Sololisto Guerrero
1/23/2018 10:00:18 pm

I am a Whistle blower, I use to work as a public employee who was injured while performing my work duties at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in 2011, injuring my spine and left shoulder and arm. Leaving me disabled my workers compensation attorneys corrupt, and I was clueless to Process. My injuries prevented me from ever returning back to work at VMC. after surgery to the should in January, 2012 six months later I was reasonably accommodated to work at Evans Lane Wellness and Recovery Center as a community worker.
The facility houses mentally ill residents who are in the Justice system. Allegedly low risk and low maintenance, told if I did not take the Job I would be sent to benefits, not ready to retire I took the job. Started working at the facility July, 2012 In December, 2012 they made me Shop Steward. A month later I discover that the criminal justice director had concealed an attack on two female extra staff workers by three male residents. The director failed to report it and allowed the residents to remain in the facility.

I confronted the director informing him that if he did not reverse himself I would report him to the board of supervisors. Next in
January, 2013 I discovered that the facility is housing registered sex offenders in violation of the residential restrictions of registered sex offenders residing within two thousand feet of a school. Because the facility is located around the corner from the Cathedral faith church that host preschool through high school students. Having first hand knowledge from seeing these resident pedophiles hoped up on methamphetamine who get out of the facility at night, as we cannot prevent them from leaving as it is not a jail.
They began marking me absent without pay for being minutes late, after the program manager Joanne Dobrzezinski docked me three days pay, and restricted me from speaking to two workers I had been representing in grievances and from being at the facility when not scheduled to work. I went to the SEIU Local 521 to talk to my contract enforcer and informed him of all the violations including the restricting of my protected rights. I wanted to file grievances they said they could not represent me, instead I was informed that an SEIU local 521 Union official Marlene Peidregoza was coming in from Washington State to assist me with problems at the facility. I informed my contract enforcer Diego Valdez that I would file a complaint with the Public employees Relations Board on my own. the Contract enforcer then said to me if you are fired for filling that complaint with PERB SEIU has a lot of attorneys who represent SEIU that would represent me. I told the contract enforcer that they cannot represent me in filing grievances for violating my protected rights as a shop steward but they can represent me for getting wrongfully terminated, of course their is large money for that huh Diego, well no thanks if those lawyers represent SEIU they are probably just as corrupt as SEIU. February, 2013 SEIU official Marlene Peidragosa arrived and called me on the phone demanding i give her what I had on the management as she still had time to clean the mess up. If I still wanted my Shop Steward position I better give it up. I told her to go jump in the lake, and on February 8, 2013 I filed a complaint with PERB against program manager Joanne D. and SEIU local 521. The retaliating got so pervasive they began with administrative investigations I was docked wages on regular bases. I could not tolerate it they financial injuring me,including what it was doing to me physically. On February 19, 2013 I blew the whistle to the Director of Labor Relations about everything. I figured she works closely with the 24/7 whistle/blower program for the county, and which county counsel oversee's the whistle blower program; they are suppose to secure your anonymity, that was not case for me, and five days later I was placed on , administrative leave of absence,accused of sexual harassment, threatening to blow the facility up, and going around parading to be a shop steward, at the administrative hearing none of those allegations were ever mentioned instead they said I was violating check in an out policy. I was on administrative leave for two months and returned after being cleared of all charges only to return to the same hostile work environment. I went to the EO department for relief, they jumped in on the ban wagon, I was removed as the shop steward. SEIU refused to recognize me as one of their own. and now kangaroo hearings. I finally had enough and retained the law office Joel H. Siegal to represent me in complaints against the SEIU local 521 and County of Santa Clara,and in my PERB complaint on August 9, 2013 Siegal called me to inform me that he had filed the complaints and the ball was rolling. I figured now the retaliating would stop. It didn't it got worse, now they were suspending for 80 hours without pay, I called Siegal and demanded that he file for an injunctio

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