I REQUEST HELP FROM THE INTERNET COMMUNITY BY A MAXIMUM REPOST OF THIS ARTICLE AND OF MY STORY ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
A JUDGE IS ABOUT TO HURT ME TOMORROW BY ATTEMPTING TO DRAG ME INTO THE COURTROOM DESPITE A MEDICAL LEAVE BASED ON BACK INJURY.
Here is my story.
My doctor had given me a leave from work for two weeks, as well as prescription medication to help with the pain that makes me drowsy.
Based on that, I asked Judge Kevin M. Dowd assigned to our Supreme Court case in Delaware County, New York, to adjourn the jury trial that is to start tomorrow.
I notified the judge about my injury back since Friday, yet, I could not get an appointment with my doctor on Friday, so I got it today.
Judge Dowd required from me a "sworn statement" from my medical provider.
He did not require anything like that from my opponents when he granted TWO medical adjournment of the same trial in 2013 and 2014, just granted those adjournments, over my objection, for the asking, with later-provided copy of a letter (not the original of an affirmation) from the trial attorney's physician.
What did Judge Dowd do when I provided my medical leave from me and requested an adjournment?
Did he tell me to get better and grant the request?
No, Judge Dowd, through his law clerk Claudette Newman, denied me the adjournment request, and told me the following:
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Once again, I have a legitimate leave from work based on back trauma, and Judge Dowd knows it.
That is all I need, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, not to do any work anywhere.
Yet, Judge Dowd threatens to use "legitimate means" (while there aren't any) to "secure my attendance".
I wonder how the "securing" will be taking place - will I be forcibly ripped out of bed, carried to the courthouse in my pajamas, put behind the counsel desk while aggravating my injury (possible bulging disk) and do what then? Not allow me to leave that courtroom?
Judge Dowd's behavior is really getting out of whack.
Yet, Judge Dowd is not original in what he is attempting to do.
Recently, a Judge in Minnesota pulled such a trick with a female attorney (why male judges keep harassing female attorneys who moved to recuse them or who sued them - does anybody knows?),
According to a report about the attorney's federal lawsuit, the attorney was grabbed by the sheriff's department during a break in the hearing (after she moved to recuse the judge), then, according to the federal lawsuit of that attorney, the sheriff's department employees stripped her of her cell phone, notes, glasses and shoes (!), strapped her to a wheelchair, wheeled her into the courtroom, where the judge ordered her to proceed with doing the trial - without shoes, glasses, notes, pen or paper, and while strapped into a wheelchair.
Judge Knutson out of Minnesota also filed a complaint to the Bar authorities against the female attorney who he ordered to proceed into trial while strapped in a wheelchair by the sheriff's employees, stripped of her glasses, shoes, pen, paper and notes.
Yet, at the least, the attorney in question was not injured at the time of the judge's outrageous behavior.
I am.
I guess, Judge Dowd wants to outdo that.
Stay tuned as to what Judge Dowd will do next.
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