When the guilty are sanctioned,great. That's the way a just government, ruled by law, not men,or women, perverting the system,and the people they represent... John Doe-vs-the people. The elected have attacked the people they work for, our Country is headed down a dangerous path. The laws should work, equally for all. Case over turned!!! BS... Responsible party should be eye,for an eye, life,for a life. However,when you have innocent people in prison due too prosecutor/police/and court misconduct, I buy rounds of shots for cops getting shot sitting in their car eating a hamburger. If qualified immunity was eliminated,and not just civil, but also criminal sanctions, were held on these government agents of tryanny the court of appeals wouldn't need to exist... Now,the American people were given the tools, first the pen,then the sword, with the 1st,and 2nd, Amendment to the US Const. Doing so acknowledging the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants, occasionally. The best and brightest don't work in no county superior court.
LOL....Yes, I told this to my ex the day we left court "If you told the truth during our marriage you wouldn't have had to remember anything." To which he asked, "Who said that?" Of course said, "Apparently someone you've never either remembered or read about, Mark Twain."
@@holiday-td6hx My late father was a pastor and I was brought up to always tell the truth, even if I got my butt smacked. He is gone now and I am in my 60's and live that training still.
I worked for a law firm and one of the attorneys was arrested/convicted for insider trading. He got 12 years because as "the keeper of the keys" he was more guilty than the people he was passing information to.
What is sad is it took her getting caught breaking a law before she was removed. There should be a process to remove bad judges when they consistently behave in a way unfitting to the bench and not have to get to the point of a crime.
Really, and who is in charge of that? What if the rulings are more liberal or conservative than the person / people making those decisions, but still within legal boundaries? By waiting for actual crimes, you insure that political or philosophical differences aren't the main deciding factors.
@@chipinnc ,,, many complaints were about her IMPROPER BEHAVIOR, and how she treated people in her courtroom...other complaints were about her IMPROPER RELATIONSHIPS with certain other officers of the court. Judges should not hear cases involving people who are related by marriage or blood, or close friends, or business. these were not complaints on her RULINGS per se. Example.. there is a County Judge who routinely rules on cases involving her son. Amazingly, cases against him are dismissed with prejudice, cases for him are ruled in his favor. (She remarried after his birth, so names are not the same..to protect the guilty 🤣)
@@chipinnc I know, right? Or a crystal ball.....A crystal ball would solve everything. Somebody should pass a law requiring the use of crystal balls. Know what? Joe Biden has a crystal ball. He knew I'd be happy with 1400 bucks right now....simply amazing, I know!
I was driving and the Lehto’s Law popped up on the Lock Screen. I saw the title, laughed out loud, and said “Theresa Brennan”. Nothing can bring Steve down today 😂
I find it amusing that locally all judgeships on the ballot run unopposed, and mysteriously, all of a sudden they list themselves as receiving campaign funding as overnight politically "independents" . Arsses of the first caliber.
@@deconteesawyer5758 I don't know about where you live, but where I am (Oregon), it's typically done like this: Judge wants to retire. Judge retires in the middle of their term, explicitly, so that governor of same political party can appoint a replacement. Replacement comes up on the next ballot as incumbent. People automatically vote for the incumbent judge because every judge looks and sounds the same in the voter's pamphlet, if they bother to put anything there at all. Pretty sure similar tactics are used anywhere that has a single party running everything that matters. It's "just us" who decides who's going to run the courts, you see.
Washington DC no longer exists. Go to google maps and check it out for yourself. Only 'Washington' comes up. The DC is no longer there, probably because the government just went bankrupt on the Municipal level.
"things adults do behind closed doors when they love each other very much" Steve always had a way of explaining things in a way I could understand them. 😆
State Bar Panel: "We see you have a felony conviction. Was it for theft or dishonest behavior?" Applicant: "Oh no, I was very honest. I confessed to the murder."
State Bar Panel: "At this point, we have decided that you would be more suited as a Law Enforcement Officer. Frazier v. Cupp, in a 1969 Supreme Court case, will give you permission to lie to secure many if not most convictions, while Qualified Immunity will protect you from whatever else that you do."
@@mikepalmer1971 , it is not an opinion, it is a fact, and make their death publicly televised just to further drive the point home to the next would be corrupt politicians.
I understand why you would say this and in the past I have thought the same thing myself, but I think that our society would then have troubles finding people to be judges and cops.
@@cavscout7113 maybe, but they should at least have equal penalty as the rest of us not the double standard they currently enjoy which is exactly where the sentiment comes from.
Remember when my father was getting interviewed by the Lord Chancellor to be a judge in the UK, the last question was 'is there anything we're not aware of you or your family has done that may embarrass us in future years if appointed? ' 😮
Hey Steve. Been watching you forever. I've been a paralegal or legal administrator for over 30 years. Many of your storys ring a bell as I watch. I'm also a car guy so you are the best of both worlds. BTW I've seen videos of that judge and man was she bad. No idea how she kept the bench so long. Keep it up my friend. God Speed.
What a horrible individual. And to think that she got away with this behaviour for SO MANY years, AND she got a plea deal that let her avoid most of the charges. What a disgrace to the entire judicial system. They should all hang their heads in shame.
As soon as I read the thumbnail of this video Steve I knew who it was immediately. Lol. I remember your videos about this Judge vividly from Brighton and your horror stories about her. And she lived up too her reputation when she was convicted in the Courtroom for the 6mo. She actually made officer's drag her out physically to jail. After watching your video's I thought that was fitting for her. Lol. Enjoy your day Steve. A fan from Traverse city.
New text on the Thumbnails, Love it! Easy to read topics! Top notch videos as always, and what a great topic! Glad she's going to be prevented from ruining more lives.
The Appellate, & Supreme court justices have allot more honor and deserve the title. If the judges on the Superior Court level were held accountable for the ex parte communications with the da, and prospectors in lieu of qualified immunity, the need for the appellate court would be cut in half. The judges in your local court are in bed with the officers regularly.
Exactly, I did my college internship in the probation office. The head of the agency went to see a local judge first thing in the morning and the judge had a full glass with what the probation officer though was water and he accidentally knocked it over and it was straight vodka.
@Guisseppe Imbriago maybe it's time they sue the Sheriff's wife since she's in on it and doesn't have the immunity that her thieving husband does. Wink Wink! Lol fight fire with flame throwers filled with jet fuel!
"Things adults do behind closed doors, when they love each other very much." I've done things like that. In the words of Tina Turner...What's love got to do with it?
ALL of them are immediate grounds for a retrial...I imagine the DA/AG are getting bombarded with motions, as I type this...Every case will need to be checked/re-checked for potential ex-culpable evidence, not provided to the defense at the original trial...Witnesses gone/deceased; Evidence destroyed...
I'v got family in Brighton (Livingston Co.). I'm sure they'll be ecstatic that they can once again hire Steve Lehto for all the horrible lemons they seem to want to buy....
I'm glad you have a microphone. You say what happened, what the law allows, the adjudication process, what happened within the system and subsequent actions. Judges are important, justice is important but having a microphone in the hands on demagogues and their agents are the norm today. I've never heard of your channel and will I stay tuned. In the age of Trump it is pleasant to happen across a UA-cam channel such as yours. Thankyou!
She was in charge of deciding over peoples lives and all she got for being dirty is 6 months they should be held to higher standards which means she should be sentenced harder. What a joke. Dirty judge gets a slap what else would you expect from courts nowdays. The law is a sham.
This kind of thing doesn't surprise me these days but it does bring to mind one question. Can individuals who incurred extra expense, legal or otherwise, or were deemed wrongfully convicted hold her civilly responsible taking her to court to recover costs and damages for her wrongdoing?
I'm sure they can; They just wont get anything...From HER! It's the county/city that's responsible( Being an attorney, they cant claim "Qualified Immunity"...)
So what office will she be running for next election? State senator, Congresswoman? People like that don't just give up and go away. They'll find out some other way to cause even more mayhem and suffering.
Judge Herman Campbell was a Judge in Shelby Township Michigan. There was a political fund raiser going on and I noticed he was in attendance. I thought to my self great, I am going to see him drink a beer or two, when I came across him I saw he was drinking coffee. I had a greater respect for him, as he got it, as a Judge he was walking the walk.
Thank you, that answered a big mystery about how obviously corrupt persons are kept in the system by those they favour. Who keeps the Bar Associations clean and tidy then?
It is amazing to me what judges and attorneys get away with. I have seen many attorneys and judges convicted of crimes and continuing to retain their license and practice. I am a CPA. We can lose our license if the Board decides that something you did was discreditable to the profession. You don’t have to have broken a law, violated ethics, or performed a substandard engagement.
I agree 100% with you Steve. Your an extraordinary man. Judges, attorneys, law enforcement, politicians, etc should ALL be held to a HIGHER standard than the average citizen…. If for no other reason, then solely because they are in charge of holding those “beneath” them accountable for the law…. A society that is governed by those more corrupt than those they govern is destined for failure.
Any judge, attorney, law enforcement, witness, etc found guilty of perjury relating to a criminal case should be sentenced to the maximum penalty that defendant was facing.
Perjury is taken very seriously in the UK too. Notably in recent times, Lord Archer, a member of the House of Lords, an Jonathan Aitken, MP (something akin to a senator or congressman), both served jail terms for lying under oath in (separate) libel cases. In both cases they appeared to think that they were somehow above the law. Turned out they weren't.
I was really glad to hear you say that some should be held to a higher standard of conduct. All too often I see uneducated and poor and very young have the "full weight of the law brought upon them" while those who "have done so well over the years but made such a mistake, etc." receive a light consequence, despite the greater education and opportunity to do/know better.
@@twilatharp3386 some prosecutors are forced to do it with cops, depending on jurisdiction and publicity. They (prosecutors) could care less if they accidentally convict innocent people. Down here, a majority of courts and city governments, not to mention the state courts, are all installed by the "Man Who Must Not Be Named" that has been a traitor to his own people. Yea, that guy. Amazing how his false disease threw a camouflage net over him, isn't it?
I think not as a matter of course unless individuals involved file appeals that are somehow accepted long after the fact. If she screwed up your case you had the option to appeal at that time.
@@twilatharp3386 well considering how our State and Federal supreme courts have mangled our common law I doubt it. Some if it becomes clear that she was biased in judging those cases.
Ha! Is it not an unfair advantage for the Michigan ballot to list "Honorable" in front of an incumbent's name? Ms. Brennen would be welcome here in Alabama provided she paid the fee to apply for her law license. The State Bar here in Alabama will accept any mangey stray dog. Getting elected to the bench would require a lot more...favoritism. Several years ago there was an attorney who was using his clients credit cards to pay his office bills, buy personal meals, etc. His law clerk who was a law student at the time reported him to the bar association. While the attorney was being investigated he made an effort to have his law clerk committed to a mental institution. The attorney's effort failed and his law license was suspended for 6 months. In the meantime his law clerk graduated from law school and passed the bar exam. As a condition for the reinstatement of the offending attorney, the ex-law clerk, now attorney, had to publish an apology to the attorney who had tried to have him committed in the newspaper! C'mon down!
Such an uplifting story! It's good to see such a crook like this judge get what's coming to her FINALLY! People like this, in positions of power literally ruin the lives of countless honest, innocent, decent people. They should all be rooted out, and taken to task!
happy to see and realize how good the lawyers who saw and felt her bad behavior must feel. Someone who deserves it gets her/his comeuppance. I'm happy to hear this.
Mr. Lehto, if you were in that Court and Judge Brennen had been assigned to your case could you have filed an Affidavit of Prejudice and had another judge assigned to the case. I know in Washington I did that because I had won my Criminal Appeal and my Judge was taken off my re-sentencing for being biased in my case. Being a small town and a two judge Superior Court I didn't feel i could get a fare hearing, So, against my public pretender's advise and refusal to file it for me, I filed pro-se against Judge number 2 and a visiting judge from the next County came and re-sentenced me. ( of interest it was my Pro-se Supplemental Brief that I filed that overturned my sentence and not the one filed by my Court Appointed Attorney for the Appeal.) I love your commentary and teaching. Please continue with these informative legal videos.
@@lancecluster The Steve had a challenge for anyone who could present a Supreme Court case that ruled that nobody needed a drivers license while driving. He put up the hundred as the reward, and just to spice things up, would hide Ben in the background. Spotting Ben first turned turned into a quasi contest in it's own way. Just a bit of fun to do when watching the vid.
@@boikatsapiens499 Thank you for the details, I had noticed comments in multiple videos regarding things like "to the left of the two mugs", etc. Was just wondering. So has he explained the "voice over woman at the end of the videos"? I am aware of the tribute to his two dogs that have passed away, and there is also an owl thing going on.
I am a court officer And I even had to file a complaint with a judge that I had the luck working with She would berate claments and attorneys for her own amusement She never read the case files nor under stand the cases she presided over It got to a point that it made my job harder because she would antagonize the people to ether cry or anger After 2 years of complaints Mine sealed the deal and she was removed from the bench And it has been peaceful
This video was before I began watching your videos religiously. I've seen the thumbnails for this video and others about this, but never watched them because they weren't current. But I stumbled across a true crime video today from 3-4 years ago about a Michigan judge having an affair with a detective in a double homicide case. I thought, "This has got to be Steve Lehto's 'worst judge ever'." So I looked it up. Sure enough... 😂😂😂
Sadly I'm in the minority, but far more often than not I will vote against an incumbent simply because they are the incumbent. This applies to people running in all three branches of the government. Our system of government was designed to be run by citizens who would sacrifice some of their time to serving the public for a brief period, and then go back to private life.
I hope the state police sgt taht had an affair with a married judge who happened to be presiding a murder case he was a major part of lost his job too. How could you possibly allow someone with that kind of ethics to be a police officer? you can't.
*If Prosecutors & Cops were held to a higher standard... most of them would be in Prison! It is easy to have "High" standards when you don't have to worry about standards... Immunity!* *We will Investigate ourselves!*
Gotta ask whose autograph is on the speed limit sign? We had a city judge a few years back (new to the bench) who got busted for DWI. She started acting seriously wacky, not showing up for work, leaving the country for vacation when told she couldn't leave the state, trying to buy firearms at Walmart, etc. She ended up in jail for a time, then when released didn't show up for her court-appointed county job. Through all this she continued earning her full salary as a judge. It took FOREVER for NY to finally remove her from the bench.
Hey Steve ! Your channel is so much fun to watch. Theater of the absurdities in the Legal World. I can only guess as to where you sit on the Political Spectrum, and that's for you to know and me to find out. Any chance of getting your take on Gretchen Whitmer ? Signed, Just Asking In California
Steve Lehto is an attorney in Michigan. Theresa Brennan is not.
roasted
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Ladies and Gentlemen; Jeer at the Dishonorable Theresa Brennan!
And Steve COULD be a judge. He just does not want to be one. Sorry, Brenna.
@@RonValk Who are you saying is misinformed?
She can now go into politics. Has all the qualifications.
Ikr wtf
She passed the test to be a
DEMOCRAP
@@danieldiehl523 I literally know her personally,- she's the 👿 devil. .
@@jasonthomas2714 have you tried holy water? I heard it has negative effects upon the devils spawn. 😂
As if anyone with a brain would vote for her???
It is good she cannot be a judge again... Addressing her as "honorable" under oath could become perjury in itself...
No. That would not constitute perjury. Possibly contempt of court.
So who's got the scoop on the dic Tective
Politicians, Judges, and police. Should all be held to the highest standers of the law. Double the penalty for them.
Hammurabi code.
They are held too a high standard. The bars set so high their above the law. Qualified immunity is tyranny.
And Lawyers. You left out Lawyers.
Exactly. Same concept as CDL holders.
It shouldn't be Defund the Police,
It should be Defund the Courts!
“Tell us why you should be allowed to practice law after this suspension”
Suspended Judge “I promise I will not get caught next time”
Perjury, that's a paddling
Don't you love it when people like this get caught and punished for their bad acts?!? It doesn't happen often, but it feels good when it does happen.
When the guilty are sanctioned,great. That's the way a just government, ruled by law, not men,or women, perverting the system,and the people they represent... John Doe-vs-the people. The elected have attacked the people they work for, our Country is headed down a dangerous path. The laws should work, equally for all. Case over turned!!! BS... Responsible party should be eye,for an eye, life,for a life. However,when you have innocent people in prison due too prosecutor/police/and court misconduct, I buy rounds of shots for cops getting shot sitting in their car eating a hamburger. If qualified immunity was eliminated,and not just civil, but also criminal sanctions, were held on these government agents of tryanny the court of appeals wouldn't need to exist...
Now,the American people were given the tools, first the pen,then the sword, with the 1st,and 2nd, Amendment to the US Const. Doing so acknowledging the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants, occasionally. The best and brightest don't work in no county superior court.
It gets to a point where even something like this doesn't make you feel good about the system. It feels like getting lip service.
I love payback. It's like,
I told you so.
She sounds awful looking karma. So glad she found it.
If she wasnt a believer, well, naw, skanks like that never learn. .lol
Mark Twain is said to have said, “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything,”
LOL....Yes, I told this to my ex the day we left court "If you told the truth during our marriage you wouldn't have had to remember anything." To which he asked, "Who said that?" Of course said, "Apparently someone you've never either remembered or read about, Mark Twain."
@@holiday-td6hx My late father was a pastor and I was brought up to always tell the truth, even if I got my butt smacked. He is gone now and I am in my 60's and live that training still.
@@holiday-td6hx It goes without saying that you yourself are without sin.
@@holiday-td6hx To be fair, she might have known who Mark Twain was but did not know he was the author of that particular quote.
*IN AMERICA WE HAVE THE 5TH AMMENDMENT SO WE CAN REMAIN SILENT IF WE MIGHT MAKE A MISTAKE IN TELLING THE TRUTH.*
I worked for a law firm and one of the attorneys was arrested/convicted for insider trading. He got 12 years because as "the keeper of the keys" he was more guilty than the people he was passing information to.
this is how it should be, and sadly almost never is.
What is sad is it took her getting caught breaking a law before she was removed. There should be a process to remove bad judges when they consistently behave in a way unfitting to the bench and not have to get to the point of a crime.
Really, and who is in charge of that? What if the rulings are more liberal or conservative than the person / people making those decisions, but still within legal boundaries? By waiting for actual crimes, you insure that political or philosophical differences aren't the main deciding factors.
There is judicial review, but they all scratch each other's hiney and enjoy the smell.
@@chipinnc ,,, many complaints were about her IMPROPER BEHAVIOR, and how she treated people in her courtroom...other complaints were about her IMPROPER RELATIONSHIPS with certain other officers of the court.
Judges should not hear cases involving people who are related by marriage or blood, or close friends, or business.
these were not complaints on her RULINGS per se.
Example.. there is a County Judge who routinely rules on cases involving her son.
Amazingly, cases against him are dismissed with prejudice, cases for him are ruled in his favor.
(She remarried after his birth, so names are not the same..to protect the guilty 🤣)
@@chipinnc I know, right?
Or a crystal ball.....A crystal ball would solve everything.
Somebody should pass a law requiring the use of crystal balls.
Know what? Joe Biden has a crystal ball. He knew I'd be happy with 1400 bucks right now....simply amazing, I know!
@@roberthudson1959 lol, theyre appointed here...
I was driving and the Lehto’s Law popped up on the Lock Screen. I saw the title, laughed out loud, and said “Theresa Brennan”. Nothing can bring Steve down today 😂
Whenever judges come up for "approval" to stay on the bench, I always vote "no"
I find it amusing that locally all judgeships on the ballot run unopposed, and mysteriously, all of a sudden they list themselves as receiving campaign funding as overnight politically "independents" . Arsses of the first caliber.
Me too. I read the name and ask myself, if I know a reason they should be retained. If I can’t come up with one, I vote no.
@@deconteesawyer5758 I don't know about where you live, but where I am (Oregon), it's typically done like this: Judge wants to retire. Judge retires in the middle of their term, explicitly, so that governor of same political party can appoint a replacement. Replacement comes up on the next ballot as incumbent. People automatically vote for the incumbent judge because every judge looks and sounds the same in the voter's pamphlet, if they bother to put anything there at all. Pretty sure similar tactics are used anywhere that has a single party running everything that matters.
It's "just us" who decides who's going to run the courts, you see.
What do you call a disbarred judge? - a good start ...
Raze the BAR.
I thought that was what do you call a lawyer at the bottom of the ocean: I suppose interchangeable
Same as: what do you call a politician in prison?
A liberal arts teacher
"Governor". "Senator". A few other things, but I think you get the idea.
I’m sure she could find a job in Washington D.C. Standards are pretty low there.
She might have on the job experience compatible with the new positions available.
Funny that you think DC has any standards whatsoever.
Yeah, maybe she could be the next AG, especially if she's African American, or transgender!
@@lisagrafton2529 Sorry to say she is white. But she’s a felon , so she has that going for her.
Washington DC no longer exists. Go to google maps and check it out for yourself. Only 'Washington' comes up. The DC is no longer there, probably because the government just went bankrupt on the Municipal level.
"things adults do behind closed doors when they love each other very much" Steve always had a way of explaining things in a way I could understand them. 😆
I came to the comments just to see if someone quoted this!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know it.
Pretty sure he’s talking about watching Netflix and trying not to fight
They don't need to love each order in order to do that.
Well F***!
I think he was alluding to doing the horizontal mambo.
Bet she runs for office.
Considering 95% of politicians are lawyers who couldn't make it in the real world, I'd say that's a pretty safe bet
@House Of Lattimore™ She couldn't be a cop with that on her record.
@@terryfuldsgaming7995 Where did you come up with that bullshit? MSLSD/CNN? Ted Cruz isn't the one blatantly committing *unconstitutional* acts...
just served her apprenticeship for Atty Gen
@@terryfuldsgaming7995 You're grossly misinformed. Try looking at the Democrats in Washington DC.
State Bar Panel: "We see you have a felony conviction. Was it for theft or dishonest behavior?" Applicant: "Oh no, I was very honest. I confessed to the murder."
State Bar Panel: "At this point, we have decided that you would be more suited as a Law Enforcement Officer.
Frazier v. Cupp, in a 1969 Supreme Court case, will give you permission to lie to secure many if not most convictions, while Qualified Immunity will protect you from whatever else that you do."
That AG that just murdered someone should be disbarred as soon as they find him guilty. Excuse me "if" they find him guilty.
disbarred hell lol. if you murder someone then you get death penalty in my opinion.
@@mikepalmer1971 , it is not an opinion, it is a fact, and make their death publicly televised just to further drive the point home to the next would be corrupt politicians.
@@paxhumana2015 but how am i an elitest prick?
@@mikepalmer1971 no. This has never gone well.
@@mikepalmer1971 seven years followed by execution
I do really appreciate how you explain the law in a way common folks, me, can understand.
I'm a "non-traditional" student - 51 years old (retired vet) - and am now a 2L in law school. Loved this vid and am glad I found your channel.
Her new career: "Your Honor, I would like fries with that."
Your dishonor
Het, that is a large fry!
She could always become a cat.
@@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT Well, she may be a rat.....
She'll be a highly paid consultant.
Sad but True.
The judges and police should have three times the penalty of an average citizen for the equal crime
I understand why you would say this and in the past I have thought the same thing myself, but I think that our society would then have troubles finding people to be judges and cops.
@@cavscout7113 That right there...Maybe we shouldn't have judges and cops for that reason alone!
@@cavscout7113 maybe, but they should at least have equal penalty as the rest of us not the double standard they currently enjoy which is exactly where the sentiment comes from.
@@jon9103 I agree.
They don't even get held accountable for what they do at all.
Bad Judges shouldn't be disbarred, they should be dismembered.
Will there be a review of her cases since she has ethical issues?
I hope so. I suppose the Attorneys of those cases should petition for reviews and new cases restarted.
Of course there will be...Every case she has ever presided over is now in question...And grounds for a new trial...
Remember when my father was getting interviewed by the Lord Chancellor to be a judge in the UK, the last question was 'is there anything we're not aware of you or your family has done that may embarrass us in future years if appointed? ' 😮
Right ‘On, old Chap!
Hey Steve. Been watching you forever. I've been a paralegal or legal administrator for over 30 years. Many of your storys ring a bell as I watch. I'm also a car guy so you are the best of both worlds. BTW I've seen videos of that judge and man was she bad. No idea how she kept the bench so long. Keep it up my friend. God Speed.
What a horrible individual. And to think that she got away with this behaviour for SO MANY years, AND she got a plea deal that let her avoid most of the charges. What a disgrace to the entire judicial system. They should all hang their heads in shame.
As soon as I read the thumbnail of this video Steve I knew who it was immediately. Lol. I remember your videos about this Judge vividly from Brighton and your horror stories about her. And she lived up too her reputation when she was convicted in the Courtroom for the 6mo. She actually made officer's drag her out physically to jail. After watching your video's I thought that was fitting for her. Lol. Enjoy your day Steve. A fan from Traverse city.
I saw that clip hahahaha justice drags on, like time.
Former judge Tracie Hunter was dragged out of court.
I LIKE the titles across your thumbnails. It makes it easier to sort through the one I have already seen.
New text on the Thumbnails, Love it! Easy to read topics! Top notch videos as always, and what a great topic! Glad she's going to be prevented from ruining more lives.
One down, a whole bunch to go.....
ETA: Wahoo!
Boys club protects the male judges doing the same things and worse....
One dislike. Looks like Theresa watched your video.
She was more mad that she can't file a libel/slander suit against him...
Why officer, I am sober as a judge.*
*Only true for some judges.
The Appellate, & Supreme court justices have allot more honor and deserve the title. If the judges on the Superior Court level were held accountable for the ex parte communications with the da, and prospectors in lieu of qualified immunity, the need for the appellate court would be cut in half. The judges in your local court are in bed with the officers regularly.
Exactly, I did my college internship in the probation office. The head of the agency went to see a local judge first thing in the morning and the judge had a full glass with what the probation officer though was water and he accidentally knocked it over and it was straight vodka.
Brett Kavanaugh.
I always thought that a kinda sneaky confession.
People do that stuff without "loving each other very much" :)
Yes but that description is kid friendly
@@Sirfrummel More like; It's libel/slander friendly...A vague description of a private relationship, without going into unknown details...
The word "love" definitely covers a wide territory in our language.
This just made my day. AWESOME news! Thx for sharing, Steve.
Any update on that civil asets forfeiture that the judge said they were going hold cops in contemp if they didnt return the money?
I've been wondering the same thing
I looked it up. The sheriff is appealing the ruling.
@@gene8172 Of course they are. They feel they deserve that money they stole.
@@gene8172 thx
@Guisseppe Imbriago maybe it's time they sue the Sheriff's wife since she's in on it and doesn't have the immunity that her thieving husband does. Wink Wink! Lol fight fire with flame throwers filled with jet fuel!
"Things adults do behind closed doors, when they love each other very much." I've done things like that.
In the words of Tina Turner...What's love got to do with it?
love has nothing to do with it but money does
Seems like a light sentence. How many court cases are going to have to be retried?
ALL of them are immediate grounds for a retrial...I imagine the DA/AG are getting bombarded with motions, as I type this...Every case will need to be checked/re-checked for potential ex-culpable evidence, not provided to the defense at the original trial...Witnesses gone/deceased; Evidence destroyed...
Boy do I find this delightful
I'v got family in Brighton (Livingston Co.). I'm sure they'll be ecstatic that they can once again hire Steve Lehto for all the horrible lemons they seem to want to buy....
I'm glad you have a microphone. You say what happened, what the law allows, the adjudication process, what happened within the system and subsequent actions. Judges are important, justice is important but having a microphone in the hands on demagogues and their agents are the norm today. I've never heard of your channel and will I stay tuned. In the age of Trump it is pleasant to happen across a UA-cam channel such as yours. Thankyou!
She was in charge of deciding over peoples lives and all she got for being dirty is 6 months they should be held to higher standards which means she should be sentenced harder. What a joke. Dirty judge gets a slap what else would you expect from courts nowdays. The law is a sham.
_Lehto's Law: In which Steve gives "The Talk"_
Behind closed doors and love each other? You mean they are playing ...GASP... Patty cakes!!??
Nice Roger Rabbit reference.
Only if it's with Jessica Rabbit
It seemed appropriate.
Hopefully without a hand buzzer
This kind of thing doesn't surprise me these days but it does bring to mind one question. Can individuals who incurred extra expense, legal or otherwise, or were deemed wrongfully convicted hold her civilly responsible taking her to court to recover costs and damages for her wrongdoing?
I'm sure they can; They just wont get anything...From HER! It's the county/city that's responsible( Being an attorney, they cant claim "Qualified Immunity"...)
Very informative, thank you for sharing this.
The head tilt at 3:06 I actually laughed out loud... Love your videos Steve
So what does this mean for all the defendants she already abused? I hope they go back and look at every case.
So what office will she be running for next election? State senator, Congresswoman? People like that don't just give up and go away. They'll find out some other way to cause even more mayhem and suffering.
Can those who had cases in front of her ask them to be reviewed or heard again now?
Judge Herman Campbell was a Judge in Shelby Township Michigan. There was a political fund raiser going on and I noticed he was in attendance. I thought to my self great, I am going to see him drink a beer or two, when I came across him I saw he was drinking coffee. I had a greater respect for him, as he got it, as a Judge he was walking the walk.
One gone - many more need to be disciplined and or disbarred.
Hundo, unfolded, leaning against the passenger side of the red viper, on the left side of the top of the main cabinet. 273.
I can’t see that on this tiny cell phone.
🥉✔🙂 3rd place
hey grober Ive been slacking off lately
I have no idea how you saw that.
Jebus how did you catch that?
So, I guess a career change would be in order for her. I hear that Sonic Drive-In is hiring.
Hope your retired she wants to be your boss . The witch coming to a town near you
maybe a running mate in 24 with camela after they axe bidden
WOW!!! I’m in Houston Texas and I remember following videos about her in the news. She was totally dishonest. Great to see your follow up!
I wish i could get payed a nice salary for a year after getting fired
As a public servant you should expect your annual pay increase, promotion, insurance and pension contributions as well.
Thank you, that answered a big mystery about how obviously corrupt persons are kept in the system by those they favour.
Who keeps the Bar Associations clean and tidy then?
I'm curious if that MSP detective is still seeing her or visa versa?
I think whatever it was has been over for a long time..
Once it became public, it was probably all over.
Yikes. How on earth did this woman become a judge in the first place? She sounds dreadful.
It is amazing to me what judges and attorneys get away with. I have seen many attorneys and judges convicted of crimes and continuing to retain their license and practice. I am a CPA. We can lose our license if the Board decides that something you did was discreditable to the profession. You don’t have to have broken a law, violated ethics, or performed a substandard engagement.
The stockade in a public square would have been nice.
They could have even given it a brass plaque in her name.
I know a judge that got into a jam after judging a 4H contest
I agree 100% with you Steve. Your an extraordinary man. Judges, attorneys, law enforcement, politicians, etc should ALL be held to a HIGHER standard than the average citizen…. If for no other reason, then solely because they are in charge of holding those “beneath” them accountable for the law….
A society that is governed by those more corrupt than those they govern is destined for failure.
You've been practicing for 30 years?
Why not stop the practicing and do it for real?
Only doctors and lawyers get to practice
@@lynnhooley7608 Lawyers' mistakes go to prison, doctors' mistakes go to the cemetery.
Its called practice because its not perfect!!🤔😅
For real? That sounds too much like real work!
Nice things happen to nice people...
Thanks for putting the video up.
If she is not in jail or prison, then she is not being held to a higher standard.
Any judge, attorney, law enforcement, witness, etc found guilty of perjury relating to a criminal case should be sentenced to the maximum penalty that defendant was facing.
we all have a broken heart now
Said no one ever!!
Not!
No not really.....one traitor down, many more to go
Perjury is taken very seriously in the UK too. Notably in recent times, Lord Archer, a member of the House of Lords, an Jonathan Aitken, MP (something akin to a senator or congressman), both served jail terms for lying under oath in (separate) libel cases. In both cases they appeared to think that they were somehow above the law. Turned out they weren't.
Steve you seem a bit on the fence here, tell us how you really feel about Brennan?
Character & Fit ought to apply to all of our public offices.
She might be 1st but Judge Post from Ottawa county is a close 2nd.
I was really glad to hear you say that some should be held to a higher standard of conduct. All too often I see uneducated and poor and very young have the "full weight of the law brought upon them" while those who "have done so well over the years but made such a mistake, etc." receive a light consequence, despite the greater education and opportunity to do/know better.
Are her cases going to be RECALLED?
Good question. Seems to me that everything she has ever ruled on is now suspect.
@@danieljones317 If this was in Canada every case she heard would have the right to recall. But sorry, I don't know US law on this issue.
@@twilatharp3386 some prosecutors are forced to do it with cops, depending on jurisdiction and publicity.
They (prosecutors) could care less if they accidentally convict innocent people.
Down here, a majority of courts and city governments, not to mention the state courts, are all installed by the "Man Who Must Not Be Named" that has been a traitor to his own people.
Yea, that guy.
Amazing how his false disease threw a camouflage net over him, isn't it?
I think not as a matter of course unless individuals involved file appeals that are somehow accepted long after the fact. If she screwed up your case you had the option to appeal at that time.
@@twilatharp3386 well considering how our State and Federal supreme courts have mangled our common law I doubt it. Some if it becomes clear that she was biased in judging those cases.
She's one of many examples of why judges shouldn't be elected.
Tell me please how can this be done when they make law from bench ??
Just keep drinking
There's a bunch of places where judges are elected and there's no requirement for them to be members of the bar.
"... when people love each other very much..." Oh, you mean watch rom-coms?
She needs to be in jail…. If we lied under oath, we would be in jail
I'd be fine w the character part, but i'm so out of shape I would probably fail the fitness test.
I voted against her multiple times. Happy to see her go. Obviously her ex-husband did as well.
Thanks for the update.
Ha! Is it not an unfair advantage for the Michigan ballot to list "Honorable" in front of an incumbent's name? Ms. Brennen would be welcome here in Alabama provided she paid the fee to apply for her law license. The State Bar here in Alabama will accept any mangey stray dog. Getting elected to the bench would require a lot more...favoritism. Several years ago there was an attorney who was using his clients credit cards to pay his office bills, buy personal meals, etc. His law clerk who was a law student at the time reported him to the bar association. While the attorney was being investigated he made an effort to have his law clerk committed to a mental institution. The attorney's effort failed and his law license was suspended for 6 months. In the meantime his law clerk graduated from law school and passed the bar exam. As a condition for the reinstatement of the offending attorney, the ex-law clerk, now attorney, had to publish an apology to the attorney who had tried to have him committed in the newspaper! C'mon down!
The biggest question is how did she ever get to be a judge in the first place?
They are supposed to be held to a STANDARD... they are not.
Such an uplifting story! It's good to see such a crook like this judge get what's coming to her FINALLY! People like this, in positions of power literally ruin the lives of countless honest, innocent, decent people. They should all be rooted out, and taken to task!
Steve when I read the story I knew you would be doing a story. Again.
happy to see and realize how good the lawyers who saw and felt her bad behavior must feel. Someone who deserves it gets her/his comeuppance. I'm happy to hear this.
Hold a steady bead on her and squeeze .
So they took away her copy of the complete works of William Shakespeare?
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Oh, wait ... for that she'd be dis-bard.
Mr. Lehto, if you were in that Court and Judge Brennen had been assigned to your case could you have filed an Affidavit of Prejudice and had another judge assigned to the case. I know in Washington I did that because I had won my Criminal Appeal and my Judge was taken off my re-sentencing for being biased in my case. Being a small town and a two judge Superior Court I didn't feel i could get a fare hearing, So, against my public pretender's advise and refusal to file it for me, I filed pro-se against Judge number 2 and a visiting judge from the next County came and re-sentenced me. ( of interest it was my Pro-se Supplemental Brief that I filed that overturned my sentence and not the one filed by my Court Appointed Attorney for the Appeal.) I love your commentary and teaching. Please continue with these informative legal videos.
Ben behind the red Viper.
I feel like there is some form of where's Waldo type thing going on that most of us are unaware of.
@@lancecluster Steve has a $100 bill that he moves around?
@@lancecluster The Steve had a challenge for anyone who could present a Supreme Court case that ruled that nobody needed a drivers license while driving. He put up the hundred as the reward, and just to spice things up, would hide Ben in the background. Spotting Ben first turned turned into a quasi contest in it's own way. Just a bit of fun to do when watching the vid.
@@boikatsapiens499 Thank you for the details, I had noticed comments in multiple videos regarding things like "to the left of the two mugs", etc. Was just wondering. So has he explained the "voice over woman at the end of the videos"? I am aware of the tribute to his two dogs that have passed away, and there is also an owl thing going on.
🥈😎🍹✔ 2nd place
Judges and lawyers should not be allowed to plea for removal of felony charges in this case destroying evidence.
Sometimes the system works!
It's a lot like how a broken clock still tells the correct time twice a day.
I am a court officer
And I even had to file a complaint with a judge that I had the luck working with
She would berate claments and attorneys for her own amusement
She never read the case files nor under stand the cases she presided over
It got to a point that it made my job harder because she would antagonize the people to ether cry or anger
After 2 years of complaints
Mine sealed the deal and she was removed from the bench
And it has been peaceful
Any bets on her next job involving the line “Would you like fries with that?”?
This video was before I began watching your videos religiously. I've seen the thumbnails for this video and others about this, but never watched them because they weren't current.
But I stumbled across a true crime video today from 3-4 years ago about a Michigan judge having an affair with a detective in a double homicide case. I thought, "This has got to be Steve Lehto's 'worst judge ever'."
So I looked it up. Sure enough... 😂😂😂
Sadly I'm in the minority, but far more often than not I will vote against an incumbent simply because they are the incumbent. This applies to people running in all three branches of the government. Our system of government was designed to be run by citizens who would sacrifice some of their time to serving the public for a brief period, and then go back to private life.
Those were the days.
I like to have them back.
Lol.
I hope the state police sgt taht had an affair with a married judge who happened to be presiding a murder case he was a major part of lost his job too. How could you possibly allow someone with that kind of ethics to be a police officer? you can't.
*If Prosecutors & Cops were held to a higher standard... most of them would be in Prison! It is easy to have "High" standards when you don't have to worry about standards... Immunity!*
*We will Investigate ourselves!*
Say it loud !!!!!!!!!!!
Gotta ask whose autograph is on the speed limit sign?
We had a city judge a few years back (new to the bench) who got busted for DWI. She started acting seriously wacky, not showing up for work, leaving the country for vacation when told she couldn't leave the state, trying to buy firearms at Walmart, etc. She ended up in jail for a time, then when released didn't show up for her court-appointed county job. Through all this she continued earning her full salary as a judge. It took FOREVER for NY to finally remove her from the bench.
Ed Bolian from VinWiki.
Hey Steve !
Your channel is so much fun to watch. Theater of the absurdities in the Legal World.
I can only guess as to where you sit on the Political Spectrum, and that's for you to know and me to find out.
Any chance of getting your take on Gretchen Whitmer ?
Signed,
Just Asking In California
She’s qualified to ask; “Would you like fries with that”