Judicial Assignments - Effective January 3, 2012I don't know much about Almquist, but it is hard to see how he could be any worse than Morse.
Watsonville:
Department A: Judge Denine J. Guy
Dependency/Adoptions
Department B: Judge Heather D. Morse
Delinquency/Truancy/Small Claims/Civil Limited
Department C: Judge Jeff Almquist
Family Law
Department D: Commissioner Stephen S. Siegel
Family Law/Domestic Violence/Family Preservation Court/Family Law Pro Per Court
Department D: Commissioner Jana Kast-Davids
Child Support
Thursday, December 29, 2011
New Santa Cruz judge
Santa Cruz California announces its just assignments at the beginning of each year:
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Look into his backround. I think he's worse. Not into the first amendment.
Activist Convicted of Marching in Parade
by Red Hill Legal Support ( redhill [at] riseup.net )
Monday Aug 16th, 2010 10:47 AM
Court finds with City in Continuing Harassment of DIY Activist
August 16th, Santa Cruz - Anarchists activists and former parade organizer Wes Modes was found guilty this morning of walking in the DIY New Year's parade along with thousands of other participants. Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge Jeff Almquist rejected arguments that the citation was discriminatory and that the city's permit requirements were unconstitutional.
Judge Almquist denied that the law was applied discriminatory, despite defense witnesses at trial who testified that they had also marched in the parade, and even wrote and called the city attorney and council to say they participated in the unpermitted parade and had received no citation.
Almquist also denied a lengthy challenge to the City's permit requirements without addressing all of the points it brought up.
He can't be worse than Morse! What about about Com. Siegel? Do we ever get to know anything about these people's background and why they should be presiding over Family Law? And why the judicial musical chairs?
My "guess" is the musical chairs with them is so that they're in a position of saying something like, " Yeah, we got a lot of complaints about him/her, so we made a switch and now have so and so on that bench."
Here's a bit of info:
http://www.votescount.com/mar2k/almquist.htm
And what are we looking at with 'Votes Count?'
He is another liberal jagoff . He is a dad hater . He must squat while peeing. U will not get impartiality from him. He is what's wrong with the legal system as it pertains to family law. I am looking forward to when he has to start following family law based on the new laws that will come about as a result of all the good work of atty. Jeffrey Leving- fathers rights advocate. Laws are changing pal and u'll b forced soon enough to move over & let the righteous be.
This Guy makes it up as he goes along.He was a Lousy lawyer who could not cut it on his own so he got a Job leaching off the City of Santa Cruz,Now because of his Connections not that he knows anything about Law, he can leach off the State.hes a complete failure as a Judge and I feel for anyone that has to appear before him.Every case of note that he has overseen has been overturned.He has no business NONE being a Judge,at least some Other Local judges and Lawyers have nothing good too say about Him
I am a devoted father. I’m work as a legal secretary for a law firm in San Francisco. I am a veteran of the armed forces, and work as a polling inspector during the elections. I have had a 17 year case in the Family Court in Santa Cruz County that is causing me to write to you today. In this case, the mother has violated a court order on 53 occasions and not allowed the court-ordered shared custody on 46 occasions, yet the judge (Judge J. Jeffrey Almquist) refuses to enforce his court orders or the law.
The mother is a recovering drug addict who has been hospitalized in an in-patient treatment center and I assumed custody during this hospitalization. Because of the mother’s drug use and behavior toward our child, our daughter had attempted suicide twice. I had our daughter treated by the head of the Child Psychology Department at Kaiser Oakland for the past three years. However, Judge Almquist ordered that custody should be changed in June of 2012, and since then I have been unable to see my child for four of the past seven months. This is dangerous for our child because she requires weekly psychotherapy and daily psychotropic medication daily to curb her suicidal ideation, clinical depression and PTSD. Once Judge Almquist modified custody in June, 2012, the mother would not allow our child to see a psychotherapist from June 15, 2012 to September 20, 2012. Only after I calendared a hearing to report these violations of court orders and the family code to Judge Almquist, did the mother send our child to see an mental health intern, who is a year away from being qualified to treat our child. I filed an appeal to the custody modification and it is pending in the Sixth District Court of Appeals in San Jose.
At a hearing on September 24, 2012, the judge was nonplussed that my child had not seen a therapist in the three months since his order modifying custody went into effect. The judge was also not particularly moved that the mother would not allow me to see my child. His sanction to her for violating the court order for three months and not allowing any shared custody or having my child attend therapy was to force the mother to allow three consecutive weekends of 48 hour visitation. When the mom only allowed two consecutive weekends, Judge Almquist said that “partial compliance” was good enough for him, and refused to do anything more to ensure compliance with his orders. After this hearing, the mother of course, has refused to follow the court order and has now violated the Court order on 53 occasions and kept the child away from me on 46 separate occasions that now total over seven months that I have been kept away from my child at the mother's hands. No judge in California history has allowed a litigant to violate its own court orders 53 times.
Oh my gosh! I am father currently going through a divorce and this GD judge screwed me on support and changed his ruling completely once my wife screamed at him and started crying. What an idiot. He wouldn't let my attorney speak and is very disrespectful to people who he has in his court. I couldn't believe how much of his decisions are based on his beliefs and not the law. My attorney was shocked!
Someone should run against him. He makes $181,292 plus benefits. Horrible judge.
The worst excuse for a judge ever! Get this monster out of the court. He must be removed from the bench. He has NO command of the law, he rules on hearsay, takes the side of the party with more money and has no integrity. He goes back on his word, abuses people, name calls, and doesn't administer the law fairly. The attorneys who kiss his @ss are those that win. He is a disturbed individual with a mental illness who needs to be removed from power.
This judge is an abomination to the law and to the human are. He needs to be removed. He has ruined lives, including mine and the story is harrowing.
Almquist is not a man, he is a transgender in the closet, he hates dads and man in general. We are not to blame for his apparent dysfunctional childhood.
The Child Support Services should remove him from judging family law before the destroys more children.
I will be glad when Almquist is disabled from eer speaking again. I hope this f*kg maggot rots in hell starting tomorrow. Crazy B*stRd!
I watched Almquist completely ignore 2 fathers today, and listen only to the mother's , who both had attorneys. He admonished both fathers for speaking when not their turn, but allowed the (female) attorneys to talk whenever they wanted to.
Both Fathers walked away confused after not being listened to and insulted.
It appears that Almquist only listens to attorneys, and if father's do not have an attorney's then they're not playing the game and don't deserve to be listened to.
This guy rambles on, and listens to items which have nothing to do with the case before him.
He is not fair. He does not use reason.
He sums up the Santa Cruz court system. Full of whack jobs and out of date.
Jeff Almquist is an entitled, arrogant, egotistical twit whose parents all but wiped his butt for him. He got into a good school through his family’s connections, not hard work. He was an inept attorney, lazy and looking for ways to employ his only natural talent, abusing and bullying others, making sleazy deals to personally profit and protecting his interests, bringing his Jersey mafia-mentality and tactics to Santa Cruz. Almquist is a nasty, petty, self-centered, greedy liar and mysogynist. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, duplicitous, pathetic excuse for a man with no substance, intellect, integrity or decency who is a phony. Almquist wears a mask that hides his vicious, nasty and pathological core; he is a bully and abuser with a sick mind who derives pleasure in destroying other’s lives and he epitomizes all that is wrong with humanity, choosing corruption and self-preservation above all else. He has always had aspirations to become a professional thug; what better fit for a phony who dupes others, masquerading as a sane person while he inflicts damage to the lives of those most vulnerable while doing favors for his fellow bullies and thugs. It’s how he positioned himself to for appointment to the bench in the first place. The only thing that keeps him on the bench is his corrupt to the core status quo management of the court and citizen’s apathy; he’s never won a judicial election. There cannot be a sleazier, more corrupt judge. He is devil in disguise.
Please, Lets come together to get this judge out. NOW! Contact the SC GRAND JURY. We could file a CLASS ACTION SUIT challenging immunity to seek attention for our plight. Has anyone filed an appeal against this cretin? if so, please share the info. We need to collaborate on ways to destroy this man's seat not he bench. He must be stopped.
Recall Almquist now!
Santa Cruz is too complacent and the quality of life is crap because of the way people like Almighty Almquist now run roughshod over decent citizens to payback favors and make money on the side. The techies make three times Almquist's salary. He rewards them because he is in awe of someone that can make money--something e's never been good at doing. He gets by on his family ties and silver spoon entitlement. He is despicable and must have a grand jury investigation of his corruption. He gets kickbacks from the evaluators, attorneys, and others members of the enterprise he helps employ.
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