Clearing the Docket 301
Michael Livingstone observers have long commented on his docket clearing expertise, how he gets cases decided. By using his highly honed sense of guilt he simply blames the person he decided was wrong in the first place, tosses her or him in jail or forces them to pay immense amounts of money and dismisses them. Simple. Sycophant lawyers (look up sycophant, it is a great word) hold forth on how wonderful he is at clearing his courtroom whereas the rest of us wonder what he did to everyone this time.
Well it looks like we have a runner up in that expertise. Apparently having now learned at the master’s feet Robert J. Guttentag current chair of the Commission on Judicial Conduct recently sent one of the Livingstone sufferers, who had the temerity to file several formal complaints with the CJC , a letter indicating that the Commission had interviewed the complainant, listened to the hearing tapes, and spoke to the judge in arriving at its decision.
Now we would never say that a background working for Gillette did not qualify one Bob Guttentag to be the titular head of the main judicial review body in Massachusetts but this one was a beaut you see because our intrepid scalawag had never spoken with the commission as Bob claimed and Mr. S checked with the tape master who handles all of the recordings for the Plymouth County Family and Probate Court to see if any tapes had been ordered up in the last year. Nope. Just for him.
So it appears that in investigating 3 serious charges the CJC performed its due diligence by talking to the person being charged and that was it.
We can see the conversation now: “Judge Livingstone, have you been mean to Mr. Scalawag? Oh no,” he answered,” I was just working on my daily gold star for clearing the cases out of my courtroom!” “Oh wonderful Mr. Judge, now don’t forget to take your goody bag of Gilette products on your way to manage your Hi-Lo properties and clearing out some of those smelly poor tenants, kind sir.”
We are again astounded, left standing here with disbelief dripping from the corners of our being. Enough said.
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I can’t wait to see this man go down…He has not once thought of the ramifications of my children with their dads visitation schedule….He allows my ex to have whatever he wants because he is a fireman, and said to him, it is your right to see them, but you don’t have to, about Holidays…My 7 kids are made to stay with their dad in his one bedroom apartment, sleeping on the floor,during the school week…Now what kind of Judge would do that, when the weekend visitation was working fine????Livingstone the nightmare Judge, he has NO respect for me as a stay at home mom or for my children during this divorce….