[Update: 06/04/2010 9:15am, PST]
Judge Marta "I don't care. I know it's all bullshit" Diaz, San Mateo County juvenile court supervising judge has been reassigned (not by her choice) to the South San Francisco courthouse. Her judicial profile has already been wiped from the San Mateo Superior Court website.
All of the usual "this is just standard procedure" and "Judge did a great job" "Not politically motivated" statements are already firmly declared.
I does appear to me from what Michelle Durand reports in The Daily Journal that it was mostly a politically motivated gambit lining up who's going to hold the reigns in the future.
There are several "juvenile advocate" agencies who are upset over the change. I don't trust their opinion any farther than I can spit. As a general rule, I think they also focus on political expediency more than on any altruistic intent. That's just an opinionated opinion though.
Judge Diaz sent boys to william hamilton ayres for evaluation even after ayres was charged in 2002 with the molestation of many of the young boys sent to him under the guise of providing "psychiatric treatement." Diaz is said to have made statements protective of ayres.
As an interesting observation: rumor of this move has probably been swirling within the courthouses for several days, as there has been a huge spike on people reading Diaz stories on this site for about the last three days or so. In anticipation of some news, I've been scanning the news sites for the last couple of days, but alas, I missed the story when it finally did come out. It was pointed out to me by Patient Advocate! (Thanks again!)
ALSO in today's news:
Looks like McDougall (ayres' current criminal attorney) is going to be going to trial with his other big client, Alexander Robert Youshock, but not necessarily for what you might think:
Two of the three evaluators said that he is competent, but McDougall want to make really really really sure, so now there will be a jury to decide whether Youshock is really really really really competent or not.
I'm sure that's what will happen in ayres' case as well. As long as he keeps paying McDougall, he'll never go to trial.
On the other hand, I suppose it could work to our advantage if the doctors in ayres' case find him not competent, I assume the prosecution could request a jury determination as well. I would think that since it appears that the evaluating doctors in ayres' case may not be entirely unbiased and may even be influenced by reports that the defense paid for, they'd have a good case.
Yay for the superfine "justice" system we have in this country!
Yeah I must get the "fish wrapper" earlier at my place, just cracked open my first Diet Pepsi of the day and saw the headlines....
ReplyDeleteI try to have 4 or so cups of coffee before I start on Diet Pepsi. (Gotta ease into it.)
ReplyDeleteI usually pop the eFish Wrapper open pretty early, but was distracted this morning trying to figure out what the heck the weather is doing.
I saw that about about a competency "Trial" - wow, the only good thing is if ayres gets a trial on his competency we may be able to find out what his super secret "medical event" was...maybe he was diagnosed as being a pedophile, and thus the sealing of his records by San Mateo County.
ReplyDeleteI don't get how they can have a jury determine competence. In Youshock's case they have three reports.
ReplyDeleteAre they going to be endlessly bickering over which of the three shrinks is the most creepy and likely to be lying about competence due to some twisted bias or other?
Maybe they'll force the evaluating doctors to reveal all of their financial data to show what officials/lawyers paid them the most cash under the table.
Couldn't agree more show me how much dinero these so called experts were paid and who wrote the check.
ReplyDeleteTransparency in justice, what stake did each expert witness have, how well did they know ayres?
What is that croud on the top?
ReplyDeleteDo you suppose that Judge Diaz's re-assignment could have anything to do with the fact that she is a friend of Ayres, and the County wants to get her out of the way????? Just wondering.
ReplyDeleteTo Anonymous at June 6, 2010 5:47 PM:
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't think the ayres case has even the slightest to do with Diaz' move.
I think she steps in shit a lot, and then puts her foot in her mouth a lot, and the big dogs are just sick of smelling her shitty breath.
It's interesting that the children's advocacy agencies seem to like her, but statements that she makes about juvenile offenders are pretty rude, and she does come off as particularly unsympathetic to juvenile males who come through the system. I don't think that has any direct bearing either, though.
To Anonymous June 5, 2010 9:11 AM:
ReplyDeleteThe Crowd: Left to Right:
San Mateo Supervisor Rich Gordon (Nominated ayres for lifetime achievement award AFTER several early complaints had already been filed.)
Former Supervising Juvenile Court Judge Marta Diaz (Referred patients to ayres AFTER criminal charges filed, and makes statements supporting ayres. Rumors from reliable sources say that ayres called Diaz twice from jail after they arrested him. )
Etta Bryant (shrink, former PPA group member with ayres, and has written publicly in defense of ayres, attended ayres first trial, showed support and affection toward the molester. Signatory on the ayres legal defense fundraising letter sent out by representatives of The Northern California Psychiatric Society. )
Thea Leavitt, wife of pediatrician Sam Leavitt (Sam referred children to ayres, and apparently one parent questioned Leavitt about exams, but Leavitt sidestepped the issue. Thea is seen from time to time "escorting" ayres to court when his "wife" Solveig is unavailable.)
Solveig ayres. (Snotty to parents of victims, snorts under her breath when the Court uses the word "victim" in reference to people who ayres molested. Pigshit is higer quality than this tart.)
Tom Ciesla (Shrink. Signatory on the ayres legal defense fundraising letter sent out by representatives of The Northern California Psychiatric Society. )
Larry Lurie(Shrink, Author and Signatory on the ayres legal defense fundraising letter sent out by representatives of The Northern California Psychiatric Society. )
Richard "Dick" Shadoan (Shrink. Signatory on the ayres legal defense fundraising letter sent out by representatives of The Northern California Psychiatric Society. )
Maria Lymberis (Shrink. Signatory on the ayres legal defense fundraising letter sent out by representatives of The Northern California Psychiatric Society. )
Robert Kimmich (Shrink. Signatory on the ayres legal defense fundraising letter sent out by representatives of The Northern California Psychiatric Society. )
Bart Blinder (Shrink. Signatory on the ayres legal defense fundraising letter sent out by representatives of The Northern California Psychiatric Society. )
Mel Blaustein (Shrink. Signatory on the ayres legal defense fundraising letter sent out by representatives of The Northern California Psychiatric Society. )
The following are shrinks who I don't have photos of (yet):
Harry Coren,
Captane Thomson (Husband of Helen Thomson, Yolo County.
Harold Wallach.
Refer me to the location of photos, and I'll add them to the growing crowd. You'd think Captane would be easy to find, but he's not.
Deep,
ReplyDeleteCheck your email I found good ole Captane's photo for ya....
Say. That's a snappy bow tie! Thanks, PA!
ReplyDeleteOK. The Captane is now appearing on the Lido Deck. Added immediately to the right of Mel Blaustein.
ReplyDeleteLooks like he just walked into a party on the Titantic!
ReplyDeleteTitanic indeed... I hope they all stay aboard for the trip down to the bottomless depths.
ReplyDeleteI've re-orderd the pictures on top to make them fit better. The new order is as follows:
ReplyDeleteThe Crowd, Left to Right:
San Mateo Supervisor Rich Gordon
Judge Marta Diaz
Etta Bryant
Thea Leavitt
Solveig ayres. (Pigshit is higer quality)
Larry Lurie
Richard "Dick" Shadoan
Maria Lymberis
Robert Kimmich
Bart Blinder
Tom Ciesla
Mel Blaustein
and
Captane Thomson (Shrink. Signatory on the ayres legal defense fundraising letter sent out by representatives of The Northern California Psychiatric Society. )
The following are shrinks who signed the fundraising letter, and I don't have photos of (yet):
Harry Coren,
Harold Wallach.
Refer me to the location of photos, and I'll add them to the growing crowd of people who to all outward appearances continue to support child molester william hamilton ayres.