{"id":534,"date":"2007-02-16T15:33:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T19:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/02\/16\/ten-things-about-judges\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T19:49:21","slug":"ten-things-about-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/02\/16\/ten-things-about-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"ten things about judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Earlier this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfhelpsupport.org\">SelfHelpSupport<\/a>.org added the document <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsconline.org\/cms\/stored_images\/TOP10THINGSYOUSHOULDKNOWABOUTJUDGES.pdf\"><em>TOP 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT JUDGES<\/em><\/a> to its Library.\u00a0 The list was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16thcircuit.org\/News\/news_home.asp\">Kelley Carpenter<\/a>, Public Information Officer, Jackson County, Missouri,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.16thcircuit.org\/\">Circuit Court<\/a>.\u00a0 This one-page document &#8220;provides insight into the limitations of judges by spelling out 10 simple things everyone should know&#8221;\u00a0about them and their role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"30\" alt=\"ProfPointer\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2007\/02\/pointerDudeNegF.gif\" width=\"40\" \/>\u00a0All who participate in our judiciary\/justice system [including judges] should\u00a0keep these\u00a0Ten Things About Judges in mind.\u00a0 Here are a few\u00a0Things\u00a0that may be\u00a0especially relevant to the <em>pro se<\/em> litigant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. No matter what we decide, at least one side is going to be unhappy, sometimes all sides.<br \/>\n2. An \u201cactivist judge\u201d is a judge that makes a decision the critic doesn\u2019t agree with.<br \/>\n4. We have families and private lives we wish to protect, so please don\u2019t show up at our homes.<br \/>\n5. We make decisions based on the law and the evidence, not public opinion or our personal views.<\/p>\n<p>7. Both Judges and the media are information gatherers, information disseminators and decision makers. We are both the messengers, and people often want to shoot the messenger.<br \/>\n9. The Judge can only consider evidence which is admissible in court. . . .<br \/>\n10. The constitution is not a \u201ctechnicality!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>p.s.\u00a0 My only quibble is with #7, which seems to overlook the fact that, as\u00a0&#8220;decision makers,&#8221; judges\u00a0are not simply &#8220;messengers.&#8221;\u00a0 Finding facts and applying the relevant law are not merely the automatic functions of a mesenger.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Earlier this week, SelfHelpSupport.org added the document TOP 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT JUDGES to its Library.\u00a0 The list was written by Kelley Carpenter, Public Information Officer, Jackson County, Missouri,\u00a0Circuit Court.\u00a0 This one-page document &#8220;provides insight into the limitations of judges by spelling out 10 simple things everyone should know&#8221;\u00a0about them and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viewpoint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}