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Lovelorn court clerk gets gaveled
Posted by Fired Fred on August 23, 2007 4:19 PM
Bad idea = becoming intimate with someone who's going to spend a lot of time in a federal pen for drug crimes.
Worse idea = starting that romantic affair while working for the federal court system.
WTF were you thinking idea = filing a complaint against the prosecutor who put her dear sweet druggie in jail for life...
Jane Cross, 57, came under scrutiny in June, after she filed a Washington State Bar Association complaint against Kurt Hermanns, an assistant U.S. attorney in Tacoma who handled the prosecution of William G. Moore on methamphetamine and other charges in the mid-1990s. She was placed on leave and subsequently fired last week.The court system basically flipped out over Cross crossing the line. It sounds like they had everyone but the Coast Guard investigating her. They figured she would do a little paperwork sleight of hand in the Ninth Circuit Court, and her and her boy toy would be sailing into a Mexican sunset before you could say "order for release."
The bar complaint accused Hermanns of committing perjury in Moore's case - an accusation that appears unfounded - and made clear that Cross, who had handled filings in Moore's case since 2000, was advocating for him, apparently in violation of her oath to remain impartial in carrying out her duty.