Judge Kelli Johnson's court reporter says she filed judicial complaint
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- After Harris County District Judge Kelli Johnson was arrested for a DWI, court reporter Gail A. Rolen said she filed a judicial complaint.
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Court reporters, bailiffs and lawyers see this type of unethical behavior all of the time but are reluctant to say anything. The same say-nothing rule applies to surgeons.
Add school districts to the list..........
These professions breed God Complexes.
Also teachers too. Kids are taught early on to shut up and say nothing.
@@bill3641and speaking up always ends up worse for the one speaking up instead of the person doing the wrong thing
wh!te privilege.
This judge has no business being behind the gavel ever again. We cannot have these types of people passing judgement on the rest of us! It’s absurd
Correct! That includes Presidents.
@@scretching08yeah like Biden
I’ve never seen anyone pass ‘enough’ of their field sobriety tests to be let go with a speeding ticket. That’s sounds like the cops involved are complicit.
Pass or fail is purely officer decision...I can say that I have been that person who's been let go but due to the fact she made sure to inform them she was criminal court judge I'd say they figured better to let her go then deal with her rath , not acceptable but understand why they let her go
@@grouchyoleguyexactly
Duh.
Definitely
@@grouchyoleguycops have thrown people in jail for dui that blew 0’s and passed the test. Quit using the bs “officers decision” excuse. It was because she was a judge plain and simple.
Another bent judge, on and off the bench. What a surprise.
Oh, I’ve seen this DUI vid. Classic. Crazy she still has a job
They all look after each other….they don’t care…except about each other. And they want people to respect the courts? Then stop being disrespectful. And the cops never should have let her go then….maybe their jobs were on the line. Whole thing is a crap show.
Another corrupt judge
wh!te privilege.
@@BenWilson-pv3beMore like mentally unstable!
How bad does it have to be for the brave court reporter to come forward & risk her career?
It's how you see it, how your cat dances, hero or zero, brave or cowardly, whiskey or whisky, Abbott or Costello ?
she is above the law.
she failed a few tests and passed a few so they let her off with a warning...any other citizen if you fail one of the many test your hauled to jail for dui ...its a two tier justice system ....people of power and position get favors
she is above the law.
She’ll take a mental health vacation like Lina Hidalgo and come back 😵💫😵💫😵💫
I almost died laughing when they said, the integrity of our judicial system, hahahaahha. We lost integrity in our judicial system long long ago.
How so?
@@jackstraw6760 what do you mean, how so? The "justice" system, from cop to judge protect themselves by not prosecuting crooked cops judges and lawyers. Do you live under a rock or something?
@@ReeferMadman sure crooked things happen and judges like Eileen Cannon will show blatant favor to the one that appointed her. These are individuals not the system.
I'm pretty sure the system worked on Senator Bob Menendez and Governor Rod Blagojevich. The system also worked with Derek Chavez.
Then there are individuals like Alexander Acosta Trump's labor secretary and Allen Dershowitz one of Trump's Impeachment lawyers. Those two while Alexander Acosta was a Procecutor in Florida worked out the deal for Trump's friend Jeffrey Epstien where he got a slap on the hand in 2008. This does happen so there are instances.
I find it very interesting that you think the failure of the system is the conduct of the personnel and not the inequity of the laws themselves written in times where white men had the domain in situations for the word go. The system doesn't need flawless people passing judgment on the lessers. The system needs smart, forward thinking people who understand that they uphold the laws but they are NOT THE LAW, nor are they above it. Substance and alcohol abuse is high among lawyers and judges as well as law enforcement. The things they hear and see are unimaginable horrific to live thru but to wade into those waters to uphold justice, they do it. Just like we ask the law to show compassion those who come to their courts, why are we not to show them the same compassion to them outside of their courts?
@@jameyst.peters4678then why are there so many black judges now. And they are no better.
Another corrupt judge. What a joke.
Nah thats not corruption thats a drug addiction!
But the whole system is corrupt AF I am sure she will threaten to turn on someone and get let go!
JUDGE,DOCTOR,
LAWYER,POLICE,
TEACHER AND THE REST ALL STEM FROM A BROKEN DOWN GOVERNOR THAT HAS FLAT TIRES AND HE IS STUCK SITTING THERE IN HIS CHAIR🪑🎱
The problem with a good deal of of Judiciary is that they believe they are omnipotent. The Federalist society endorses that.
Thanks to the court reporter for standing up and speaking out. Individuals like you are few.😊
Absolutely. She put her whole career on the line. Respect.
I totally disagree. The court reporter noted a decline since January. She waited until it was all over the news to file a report. I would have had more respect for her if she would have reported this BEFORE the news broke.
what do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 60? "your honor"
if a judge has to be out on bond THAT is a clue
Another bad judge in Texas it can’t be lol
Voters, research who you are voting for!!! Judges, DAs...we vote for them.
If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it.
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It’s so hard with the judges though. How do I research them? I’m honestly asking. I like to always Kronos who I’m voting for, but I honestly know nothing about the judges I vote for.
Some judges are appointed, so no voting ever.
If the rest of us failed one portion of a sobriety check we would have been placed in cuffs. Time for this judge to go!
Dui/dwi isnt just for alcohol, its anything that impairs you.
Even a bj?
😂 integrity of the judicial system in Texas! This is a joke, right?
It's Houston, liberal cesspool 🤣
Everything’s bigger in Texas. Including assholery, corruption and bigotry.
Actually nationwide. Look at all the judges in 2020/2021 who refused to even look at the mountains of credible evidence showing the election was fraudulent! Not to mention the corrupt judges in the Trump prosecutions!
Don't mess with a court reporter. Those fast and fluent fingers dictate each and every misconduct🎯
The judge needs to lose her law license and definitely needs to be in jail.
Won’t happen !
Anybody else would be out in jail
Judges are always trying to give help for those who have substance
abuse issues. So why isn’t anyone helping her?
I'm so sorry to hear this I hope she receives help ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Well, I did not realize I could get a DUI for just having a prescription bottle in my purse.
Not to mention our Supreme Court Judges
integrity of the system? Its a joke. Its a business that several people and companies profit from by keeping jails full. They treat you guilty first and you have to prove your innocence 2nd. Prosecutors dont care about finding the truth, they care about numbers. We are not ppl to them, just a number. So give me a break and spill the beans about the judge, treat her like everyone else in the system guilty first. Make her prove her innocence
judges are not above the law
Who are the cops from the first DUI stop? Why aren’t they being investigated? She could’ve killed a mom and kids and those cops would rather cover for her then or they’re just that bad at their job and shouldn’t be officers.
I heard that department is accepting applications
The cops in Texas are not there to actually serve and protect anything but the corruption that is weaved in the entirety of every government office state wide.
@@grouchyoleguy is this some lame attempt to say "if you think you can do better than go join the force"? Look up stats on the most dangerous jobs in America and you'll see police officer isnt in the top ten but my job is in the top five. Now go look up the court case Jordan v. New London where police didnt want to hire a guy because he scored to high on his IQ test. And just so you know NYPD Blues isnt an accurate depiction of policing in America.
@@raybay7237 no that's don't criticize the way a person does a job you won't
@@grouchyoleguy 😂😂😂 apply your logic to landscapers, the guy you hired to re shingle your roof, the doctor you go to with an education you couldn’t dream of, and the guys that service port-a-potty’s at city parks. Im not a police officer because I make more money doing a more dangerous job and don’t complain or bag for recognition. I also don’t get paid by taxpayers and then try to scam more money from them with stupid things like broken tail lights or tint tickets.
Bet that judge would like to catch her in a dark alley and to set her straight on how the law works when she is the judge .
Incredibly bold of her to speak up. Ppl like this judge are dangerous and vindictive. Nobody "crosses" them.
Wouldn’t it be nice, if the people banking tax dollars, and presiding over our lives deserved the respect and protections we give to them? My mother used to work for a famous Harris County Justice of the Peace. I saw behind the bench for many, many years. What I saw was so much more than shocking.
No you didn't.
Why are we
not surprised?
This is crazy!
These people have cared less how many lives they have destroyed while exempting themselves from punishment from same bahaviours
Fun fact: as a court clerk, I got to go to the same training as a DWI field investigator. Field sobriety tests are designed so that a SOBER person can’t pass them. They are just there to give an officer probable cause to arrest someone for DWI/DUI. If you are ever pulled over and the officer wants a field sobriety test, DONT DO IT. If you are sober, ask for a field screening test, which is blowing into a screening device. If you blow a zero, the cop is legally required to let you go. If he doesn’t have one, demand a blood test or a breathalyzer. If the officer refuses, start recording if you haven’t already, because the officer has already decided to do something illegal.
Inaccurate. Youre speaking of alcohol only. Impaired or under the influence means a variety of things even with no substances, ie, extremely sleepy (rare, but possible).
As sober as a judge - nooottt !!!!
Nothing compared to what Justices Alito and Thomas get away with.
Chief justice Roberts is complicit for ignoring their actions.
It's illegal to have prescribed drugs with you in your vehicle? How do you get them home from the pharmacy otherwise? 😒
She's finally exposed
What did they expose? Her potential DUI?
@@LoriL010 would you feel this way if you were in front of her while she was on the bench?
@@ringaleavo I don't know how I would feel. Other than being accused of a DUI, which she denied and blew a 0 on the breath test, what has she done? No one knows because the court reporter who has issue won't say what her complaint is.
@@LoriL010 #1 blow tests malfunction, #2 what an officer observes is enough for a DUI arrest, #3 Xanax can cause DUI like coordination and there was a bottle with her name in the car, #4 This is not even close to her first DUI arrest
@@LoriL010 Motor Vehicle Accidents are the #1 cause of death in the US, and most accidents contain at least driver that was DUI
I can guess the basis of the court reporter's complaint... A court reporter's role is to transcribe proceedings. Johnson was probably drunk on the bench, and she probably tried to put pressure on the court reporter to alter or omit language in transcripts that would show Johnson was drunk.
Drunk judges and judicial efforts to cover up a judge being drunk on the bench aren't new.
I'm not in Harris County. I've been working in the Orange County, California criminal defense community for years. But I see this stuff all the time. The stuff we see here is probably very much like what goes on other jurisdictions, including Harris County. You just don't hear about it.
Here's what OC is like....
Some years ago, an OC judge (Scott Steiner) was disciplined for having relations in chambers. Another OC judge (Ronald Kline) was busted by the federal government for having inappropriate photos of children in his chambers. Both judges blamed alcohol.
Another OC judge (Jeffrey Ferguson) had a history of getting drunk and making Facebook posts directed at deputy DAs. He was disciplined for this by the California Commission on Judicial Performance. But that didn't help with his behavior. In fact, it only made his behavior more aggressive until, last year, he got drunk and shot his wife to death. Judge Ferguson is currently being prosecuted for murder. His defense is that he was too drunk to form the required criminal intent for murder.
In most cases, a crime isn't committed when an OC judge gets drunk. Usually, an OC judge in an intoxicated state just screws up a ruling, and then tries to doctor records of the hearing to cover that up.
I've actually got videos of this and have posted one of the videos to my UA-cam page.
The video I've posted is of a judge named Kimberly Knill, who is basically Orange County's version of Kelli Johnson. The hearing is in a civil matter to which I am not a party, but I knew of because it involved a paralegal I used to work with. You can find the video by clicking on my profile. And it's great! The judge's speech was slurred throughout the hearing. She got hiccups. She was belching. And she was so drunk that she ended up going on a bizarre ramble as to how a 15-day notice period was somehow met between January 20th and 31st!! 😂
Judge Knill tried to suppress the record of what happened in my paralegal's case. Specifically, Knill threatened contempt if my video wasn't taken down.
I obviously didn't take down the video. In fact, I left a nice little comment for Judge Knill inviting her to issue a contempt order, so I can come into her courtroom and explain to her how the First Amendment works. Sadly, she has yet to follow through on her contempt threat.
Like I said, what goes on on Orange County is pretty standard of what goes on in state courthouses everywhere, and is probably what's actually going on in Harris County. Based on that, I can guess what Judge Johnson did to the court reporter, causing her to file a complaint. Like Judge Knill did to me, Judge Johnson probably tried to apply pressure to destroy records of a proceeding in which she was obviously drunk.
None of this should come as a shock. Certainly, this doesn't shock me, just as this story about Judge Johnson doesn't shock me. While people expect that the judiciary consists of disciplined and intellectual judges, the sad reality is that many judges have substance abuse problems. I've seen it with my own eyes.
Hold your microphone still, dude. You're a professional now!
Complete non-story. The judge may well be a piece of s***, but you obtained nothing new with this story.
Wow...judge needs to sit down somewhere, away from the courthouse. What an embarrassment. Getting arrested, getting drunk and other things and trying to hear/rule on cases. She still has a job. 🤔
Our judges have been doing whatever they want for so long I genuinely believe they just forgot that’s not how it works🤷♂️
When I played local charity tennis tournaments, there was one guy who cheated all the time. He was a lawyer who became a local judge.
"Police found prescription drug pills in her car". There is nothing illegal to just carrying your "prescription" medication in your car. Police want to use the term "drug pills" instead of medication to make it sound nefarious but did not state what she had was illegal.
So she’s alleging the judge has been drunk on the job and they’re worried about all the appeals that are about to happen.
UPDATE The DA dropped the DWI charges against Kelli Johnson on September 10, 2024
The court reporter better watch her back.
Best thing to do:don't commit crimes and end up in her courtroom.
She will throw you in jail at the drop of a hat, but expects to get away with whatever laws she decides to break. Typical power monger.
Same ones....
She's right about one thing.....ABC13 and anything ABC! imo
It’s about time this republican judge is held accountable for her actions and is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
If this judge got away for so long for calling hire ups to het away with it!!! We are not gonna call 🤙 ... My opinion tho
I'm really glad Skylar White cleaned herself up and became a judge.
All these tyrannical public servants need 2 b held accountable!!!
OF COURSE those poor excuses of law enforcement officers/sheriffs let her go even though she failed. They're "good ol' boys."
The part about "prescription bottles" in her car is inflammatory, suggesting opiates when they could just as easily be anything but.
OR, it Could be opiates.
@@lights6833 Yes, it definitely _could_ be.
By why mention it in the first place without proof, if not only to plant the suggestion?
In the context of her being arrested for driving under the influence after blowing a zero, BAC the only conclusion is that they were mind altering or mood altering.
@@BradleyGuy-v6i "Only conclusion"? Likely? Yes. Only? Of course not.
Perhaps you're unaware of the spate of false DUI arrests in the news lately.
Sounds like the judge could be suffering from a mental issue..or perhaps a chemical dependency problem
probably chasing ms. rolan around the ol' docket
I hope she gets some help with her addiction.
"prescription pill bottles in the car" isn't a violation of law last I knew so why was it necessary for officer to mention it
To imply that she was still intoxicated/displaying certain behaviors and could still blow a 0.0% BAC for alcohol.They should have done a blood draw to answer that question. Of course, a judge would have to sign the warrant for the draw & it's anyone's guess how that would have gone.
@@roachroacharito9113 if they've arrested you for D .U. I. they don't need anything from the court in most states ,falls under "implied consent" that drivers give when getting a license
@@grouchyoleguy In April 2022 the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in Missouri v. McNeely and held that, when a person is unwilling to give a blood sample, a warrant is necessary.
I wonder what happened to her. She has an extensive list of accomplishments. Two kids and a wife. One can only speculate.
Fire the judge
The dirty world of the judiciary who consider themselves exempt from the same law that serves as the standard used by the court to sentence the guilty and achieve justice for the wronged...just not judges.
It feels like it’s Atlanta vs Houston in the battle for the most get toe
Abbott won't stand up and put an end to this.
😂 Shame on you! 😂
She should be in Fulton County, GA.
I think judge Skylar White should resign.
He said her attorney said she blew 0 for alcohol WTF
This is what happens when judges are appointed by their political connections and not on merit.
She needs to be in prison for her actions. Anyone else would be.
Prescription pill bottles? Is that a crime? Kind of like having cash? Or being black? If they'd say, pill bottles that she shouldn't have had, maybe id GAF. IDK but just having pill bottles, sounds like this news outlet wants you to hate the judge.
Tip of the iceberg with respect to dysfunctionality of the criminal justice industrial complex
Women hate each other and never should be in charge of anyone
She sent me to jail in 16
BAD Judge ! Do what I say not what I do !
Some of these judges are thinking that the law doesn't pretain
to them.
Cat fight 😾
So she's known since Jan 2024 and said NOTHING all this time. Complicit.
Do you actually KNOW for sure she said nothing to anyone else before that? People complain to their superiors all the time and they say they’ll take care of it, and then nothing gets done. Maybe this was the last straw. Nobody but her knows the full story.
There's nothing to see here. Move on to the next story...
What is Anna Gunn doing as a judge?
Judges and prosecutors are immune
Lock “Crooked Kelly” up!!!
They just need to leave her alone.She's probably going threw personal issues n problems at home just like we all doo..
Another dirty judge.
That judge in the tumbnail looks like walter whites wife
Bad headline
what is DW IRS? Lol
I think I m in love with the court reporter! Yep,I'm sure of it!
She's putting in the work for an appointment to trump's SCOTUS.
She is a drunk deciding on peoples lives…
Red Texas, not surprised at the corruption
Skyler from Breaking Bad
corrupt cops protect system officials👎☹️
Probably on Drugs ?
Well when the head judge for the city is someone who was a DEI elected hire with no real world experience straight outta college its a no brainer why things are outta control in houston. Ogg's woke office isnt much help either.
Isolated incident
She will go to rehabilitation, and she will walk away with a clean record
No negative or racist comments about how Kelli was a DEI hire, huh?