The ever-self-aggrandizing and sermonizing Judge Brian D. Birns deleted a negative comment against him to raise his book's rating on Amazon - and continues to be paid advocate "for children"

In April of 2022 I wrote about the book Judge Brian D Burns, now of Otsego County Supreme Court, is selling on Amazon, here is the link to that blog article.

I actually bought the book, read it and left a review as a verified purchaser, along with another review that was already there, from a person I do not know, also negative.

Yesterday, I have checked on Amazon - and voila! "His Honor" has deleted one negative comment (left mine intact though), 

and, together with a "5" rating without a review, jumped his rating for this book to 3.1 (3 stars from one).

As a courtesy to Judge Burns, and to the reading public, I will try to brush up the Honor's honor, and republish the link to the book, and the review that the judge deleted, along with Amazon-stamped rating of 1.8.

Enjoy!

It also seems that Judge Burns has spilled his wisdom, on the same topic, into another book, a Kindle edition now, available on Kindle Unlimited, for free for me.  

Note that the dishonorable pig has put his "Honor" in front of his name on a book title.  Vanity, said the very well known character, my favorite sin.

Here is the text of the annotation for the "Honor"'s 2024 book, for easier reading:

"More than half of the four million children born every year in the United States will be raised by parents who were never married or get divorced. As a New York State Family Court and Supreme Court Judge, I have presided over thousands of the resulting custody cases and have interviewed countless children in the course of litigation over the last 23 years. This book is my attempt to help those parents who are currently struggling to co-parent, and to guide those parents to be who find themselves in this situation in the future. Unlike most custody books, this will not tell anyone how to “win” custody. Rather, it is written to express the children’s appreciation for things that their parents do well together and their pain and anguish when their parents fail to co-parent successfully. Unfortunately, I have learned that children who are the subject of custody fights are often too confused, angry, or scared to communicate their deepest feelings directly to their parents. This book gives voice to the children. To emphasize that the “advice” contained in the book comes directly from the children, I have written it in the form of a series of letters from children to their parents. Each chapter consists of the letter followed by my legal and personal commentary. Many of the letters in which children describe their suffering can be gut-wrenching to read – but my commentary offers suggestions to help parents avoid causing unnecessary pain. An equal number of letters are happy missives thanking parents for doing things that the children appreciate and which contribute to their sense of security and of being loved and cherished".

That's him.  Categorizing and sermonizing based on his own bitter small mind.  Great sympathy to those hapless litigants and attorneys who have the misfortune to have to appear in front of him.

Just from the annotation though, you can perceive what a sermonizing bastard the "Honor" is:

parents who never married and who divorced, in his view, are destined to end up in court in a bitter custody dispute.

And, do you think it is appropriate for a sitting judge to continue to openly advocate for children - for money?  What kind of impartiality parents, for example, can expect from him in a proceeding involving the child as an alleged victim?

A judge MUST be neutral, and MUST abstain from being an advocate for whichever party, no matter how vulnerable and likeable.

Apparently, the "Honor's" skull is too thick to get such a simple concept through, after 24 years on the bench.

I promise, I will find time to download and explore the "lessons", compare them with the previous ones and tell you if the pig has acquired any more wisdom, or simply copied and pasted from the first book in order to raise the rating. 

As to Burns being "advocate for children" - maybe, on Amazon, for money, but Anthony Pacherille (plug in this name on the right in the search window and read his story) will disagree.

Will report on what I found in his 2024 book soon.

Until then!