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THE JUDICIAL COURTHOUSE CROWD LIKES GOING IN THROUGH THE REAR
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By <b>Juan Montoya</b><br />It seemed like a good idea to the Cameron County District judges: Limit the number of people who can come in through the secured rear entrances of the county judiciary wing to judges and law enforcement personnel for security purposes.<br />They already made people wanting to patronize the coffee shop who were in the administrative wing (tax assessor-collector, county clerk, veterans service officer, etc) and the judicial section to go around the front of the building through the metal detectors.<br />If you have noticed, if you are at the tax-assessor -collector getting your license plates renewed and feel like a cup of coffee, you can't simply go in through the glass door, you must go outside and through the front of the building to get there. So, thought the judged, why not impose the same restrictions on people coming in through the rear of the courthouse?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcmfaGSpyjfXtlkX_U3HqlzmFDwQs5I359Y18Rh2MHb7iQJO7uzdl12zPKYIRF3K_krjY3En_AR-F-ePRycln0ZupRDDWsOBG2_V9M-sXugLpfIKmHNNKG86QS46UNmhLnlkPv3E0yJM/s1600/door.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcmfaGSpyjfXtlkX_U3HqlzmFDwQs5I359Y18Rh2MHb7iQJO7uzdl12zPKYIRF3K_krjY3En_AR-F-ePRycln0ZupRDDWsOBG2_V9M-sXugLpfIKmHNNKG86QS46UNmhLnlkPv3E0yJM/s320/door.png" width="320" /></a>Little did they know that they would unleash a tempest of protest and vitriol when they (Judge Lionel Alejandro) penned a memo to Constable Pete Avila that he was to pass around the judicial wing announcing the new entry rules. The memo limited the number of people who could have access to the rear doors and did not include secretaries of judges, assistants, clerks, car washers, etc.<br />Now, Pete's position has grown considerably since he took over from Abelardo Gomez three years ago. Instead of the three or four deputies, he has inherited the responsibility of overseeing the bailiffs in the courts and the security detail at the doors of the judicial wing. Additionally, he commissioned the courthouse constable after they had a differences with e Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio and he refused to swear them, which would in effect prevent them from carrying out their duties.<br />Soon, an indignant stream of complainers began arriving at the constable's door protesting the new restrictions.<br />"Do you know who my boss is?," inquired a secretary at Aurora De la Garza's Cameron County District Clerks office.<br />"Aren't you getting a little too big for your breeches?" inquired another. "Is your power going to your head?"<br />The diminutive Avila could only reply that he was only the messenger and that he was only following the wishes of the district judges, to no avail.<br />Wishing to defuse the situation at this critical time of the year (he's up for reelection against a handful of candidates for the Democratic nomination), Avila is said to have scurried back to Alejandro to ask him whether any exceptions were going to be made in the cases mentioned above.<br />When Alejandro seemed to waver, Avila told Alejandro that unless the rule applied to everyone equally, he wanted no part in enforcing it selectively and make mortal enemies of the help.<br />That was two months ago. As of today, there has been no mention of the proposed no-entry-through-the-rear prohibition.<br />"And that's the way we like it, stranger."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7765536212960277042?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/01/courthouse-crowd-likes-going-in-through.html
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WITH HERALD WONDERING ABOUT TEREAU, HOW ABOUT ZAMORA?
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />The local daily today featured a story wondering if, or when, the Cameron County District Attorney would decide whether to prosecute City of Brownsville Commissioner Jessica Tetreau-Kalifa on assault charges related to one of five cases of domestic violence field sicne she took office last year.<br />All the DA's office would say was that it hadn't "reached an agreement with the defendant in the case. The case is still pending."<br />The assault charge arose from a report of domestic violence Sept. 9 at the couple's new home on Greenfield Court. At the time, police reported that Tereau had assaulted her husband after she overhead her husband Arturo speaking to a passenger in his car about another woman unaware that his cell phone had not hung up.<br />He has since filed an affidavit saying eh does not wish to prosecute in the case.<br />However, since the case had been turned over to the DA's office, it will be for that office to make a determination on the matter. Tetrau-Kalifa insists she was the victim and claims that the fact that she called 911 and alerted the police proves it.<br />The commissioner has been the subject of frequent police reports in her troubled relationship with her spouse. <br />Another of her fellow commissioner members, Melissa Zamora, recently also made an appearance on a police report where she intervened in a police arrest on DWI charges of her friend Lupita Molina, a UTB-TSC media center employee. In her case, the police report indicates that she was talking to Molina even after she had been warned not to communicate with the suspect.<br />The report written by Patrolman Everardo Longoria, mentioned the fact that Zamora had disregarded his order and was heard screaming to Molina a second time through the closed windows of the police car.<br />However, Longoria, the brother of city commissioner Ricardo Longoria, did not identify the city commissioner in question. Zamora, however, in a Facebook posting, defended her actions and said Molina was her friend.<br />Zamora, an executive at Elite Promotions, is said to handle the promotional side of the re-election campaign of State Rep. Rene Oliveria. Molina was driving a car registered to Oliveira that was reported uninsured and that struck a Ford van with two people inside as it traveled on the frontage road in front of Charlie Clark's Nissan dealership along US 77-83.<br />At least two people have commented to blog reports that they saw Oliveria at the Cheddar's Restaurant a few minutes after the incident was reported in the business' restroom speaking on the cell phone and sweating profusely. It is unknown whether the tapes of the restaurant's surveillance cameras were reviewed by the Brownsville Police Department.<br />In hsi report Officer Longoria did not explain why no charges had been brought against Zamora for interfering with the arrest or disregarding the orders not to speak with Molina.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-1925268641254657614?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/01/with-herald-wondering-about-tereau-how.html
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FEDERAL GRAND JURY TIGHTENS NOOSE AROUND LIVINGSTON CASE UNDER STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS DEADLINE
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />A grand jury convened in the federal court in Brownsville is said to have called several witnesses that are said to be related to the release by disgraced former 404th District judge Abel Limas of convicted murderer Amit Livingston.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQrci-RC1AlR-JBxeROsNHRe6RMQ0vUfpL0JMwdPtwzi0oYw8A6WWrmeUpcsMjE0iq6DmStyaQcsF-Nmw3SrEdDzXk7O9qZLMX6j0O4D0fKo5_pFasD-atIG8brJrfGs78zwg5gQuN7A/s1600/1178723101-amitlivingston.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQrci-RC1AlR-JBxeROsNHRe6RMQ0vUfpL0JMwdPtwzi0oYw8A6WWrmeUpcsMjE0iq6DmStyaQcsF-Nmw3SrEdDzXk7O9qZLMX6j0O4D0fKo5_pFasD-atIG8brJrfGs78zwg5gQuN7A/s200/1178723101-amitlivingston.jpg" width="147" /></a>Livingston has been on the run since April 2007, when he absconded on a $500,000 security bond. According to federal courthouse sources, the federal statute of limitations on charging anyone for his escape from the country will run out five years from then, in April 2012, this year.<br />The sources said that several principals related to the Livingston case were seen sitting awaiting their turn to testify before the jury but declined to identify them.<br />The Livingston case was easily one of the of most notorious emerging from Limas' court shenanigans and involved the murder of 32-year-old Hermila Hernandez, whose body was found October of 2005 near a South Padre Island beach. Livingston, a man she met on the Internet and with whom she had had a brief affair, was convicted of killing her after she "pushed his buttons" and "insulted his manhood" during one of their meetings.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPjyo1xw3FLXzr6Hu86OYVZzpGp-3TYUn4IjLikyQKBJIfivML9dBUghg5Lv7F58YKR5EoQ0YQMY723ipGYTDks5M-8Gy8FKNWR7oSV9-pIBDUDrTGHutSBF2wcQyafkevSaBS4YIkSUg/s1600/brownsville.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPjyo1xw3FLXzr6Hu86OYVZzpGp-3TYUn4IjLikyQKBJIfivML9dBUghg5Lv7F58YKR5EoQ0YQMY723ipGYTDks5M-8Gy8FKNWR7oSV9-pIBDUDrTGHutSBF2wcQyafkevSaBS4YIkSUg/s320/brownsville.jpg" width="320" /></a>After his conviction, court records show that Limas allowed Livinsgton to go free for 60 days after defense attorneys reached a deal with prosecutors on the furlough.<br />Limas granted defense attorney Greg Gladden’s request for the grace period before his client was to surrender and begin serving his sentence, without an objection on record from the DA's office.<br /><div>In later accounts, Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos despite his objections.</div><div>Shortly after the plea agreement was made in Livingston’s murder case, Limas divided the $500,000 cash bond between Hernandez’s children and their lawyer, Eddie Lucio of Dallas.<br />Lucio, Villalobos’ former law partner, was dealt in because he filed a parallel civil wrongful death suit against Livingston, attaching the bond money as settlement for Hernandez’ death.<br />How true is it that the defense lawyers and prosecution counsel may be in the federal bull's eye?<br />That is apparently the wish of every one of Mando's opponents to the U.S. Representative District 27 seat up for grabs this election cycle. But at least one isn't holding his breath.<br />"I've heard the same thing for more than a year," he said. "I'll believe it when I see it."</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7647449986343783457?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/01/federal-grand-jury-tightens-noose.html
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