No. 18-7758

Mary Cummins v. Amanda Lollar

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2019-02-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judge-selection judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-selection texas-courts trial-fairness visiting-judge visiting-judges
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-03-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is a trial by a visiting Judge according to Texas regulations a fair trial?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Texas Courts allow “visiting Judges” when the sitting Judge is ill or wants to take time off. The sitting Judge chooses which specific Judge they want as their replacement. The Judicial Judge for that District then assigns the requested Judge as the visiting Judge for the specific case and time. In almost every other court in the nation the Judges are chosen in an unbiased random manner by an administrative district Justice to assure a fair trial by an unbiased Judge. Defendant was deprived of an impartial tribunal. 1D) Is a trial by a visiting Judge according to Texas regulations a fair trial? 2) Has Mary Cummins been deprived of due process by use of a retired Texas visiting Judge who was the longtime friend of the sitting Judge Bonnie Sudderth, Plaintiffs’ attorney, Randall Turner and Plaintiffs’ attorney’s wife, Patti Gearhart-Turner? : 3) Has Mary Cummins been deprived of a fair trial based on a judgment in a case made by a visiting Judge?

Docket Entries

2019-03-18
Petition DENIED.
2019-02-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2019.
2019-02-15
Waiver of right of respondent Amanda Lollar to respond filed.
2018-11-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 7, 2019)

Attorneys

Amanda Lollar
Randall E. TurnerLaw Offices of Randall E. Turner, PLLC, Respondent
Randall E. TurnerLaw Offices of Randall E. Turner, PLLC, Respondent
Mary Cummins
Mary Cummins — Petitioner
Mary Cummins — Petitioner