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Survey finds 1 in 10 fearful
By Renee Dudley
Monday, March 29, 2010
One case involved an attack on a judge’s home while everyone there was asleep.
Another saw a defendant explode in a violent rage and lunge at a judge.
Violence and threats like those, reported in a recent survey of Massachusetts trial court judges, were “quite concerning,“ according to Judge Peter W. Agnes Jr., president of the group that compiled the results.
Other reported examples include death threats against judges and their family members, threats of arson at judges’ homes, swearing and over-turning tables.
In other cases, one defendant remarked that he knew where the judge lived and would “burn down his house.” In another, “because a judge gave custody of the children to the Department of Children and Familes, a parent threatened to ‘take’ the judge’s son.”
About 14 percent of the respondents said they feared for their safety on a daily basis, according to the survey, conducted in 2008 and 2009. Some of them require law enforcement escorts to and from work, the report says.
Nearly a third of the respondents said they sought law enforcement protection to address specific threats.
Surveys were sent to every sitting Bay State trial court judge - about 350 of them, said Robert P. Clayman, executive director of the Judges Conference.
Specifics about the assaults were withheld to protect judges’ privacy, Agnes said.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1244540
Jurors get > "Why do you NEED this license?" (thru the plexiglass)
Survey finds 1 in 10 fearful
By Renee Dudley
Monday, March 29, 2010
One case involved an attack on a judge’s home while everyone there was asleep.
Another saw a defendant explode in a violent rage and lunge at a judge.
Violence and threats like those, reported in a recent survey of Massachusetts trial court judges, were “quite concerning,“ according to Judge Peter W. Agnes Jr., president of the group that compiled the results.
Other reported examples include death threats against judges and their family members, threats of arson at judges’ homes, swearing and over-turning tables.
In other cases, one defendant remarked that he knew where the judge lived and would “burn down his house.” In another, “because a judge gave custody of the children to the Department of Children and Familes, a parent threatened to ‘take’ the judge’s son.”
About 14 percent of the respondents said they feared for their safety on a daily basis, according to the survey, conducted in 2008 and 2009. Some of them require law enforcement escorts to and from work, the report says.
Nearly a third of the respondents said they sought law enforcement protection to address specific threats.
Surveys were sent to every sitting Bay State trial court judge - about 350 of them, said Robert P. Clayman, executive director of the Judges Conference.
Specifics about the assaults were withheld to protect judges’ privacy, Agnes said.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1244540
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