SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Sunil R. Kulkarni and Lori E. Pegg to judgeships in the Santa Clara County Superior Court. ... The compensation for each of these positions is $178,789.The state had previously announced that Joseph was being considered for one of these positions, and was soliciting comments about his fitness to be a judge. I sent my comments, and many of my readers did also.
Joseph had previously been fired as Santa Cruz county commissioner, and had been passed over for Santa Cruz county judgeships.
Joseph has wanted all his life to be a genuine family court judge. He would rather be one in Santa Cruz county, as that is where he lives, but Santa Clara county is just "over the hill", as the locals say, and would be the next best thing.
If he were only incompetent, he would not be so bad. He is worse than that, and should never be a judge anywhere.
Thanks to everyone for sending info about Joseph. Obviously the governor depends on recommendations to make these appointments, and his staff probably had no way of knowing how bad Joseph is without our comments. I am glad to see that their system of soliciting comments actually worked.
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There's always Alameda County. Leon Panetta's daughter-in-law has been a judge there, but was just appointed to the Superior Court in Monterey County where Panetta and his son live and work. Now there's a vacancy in Alameda County and maybe Commissioner Irwin Joseph could drive just a little further for the elevation.
Judges are elected in California, so he can always run for office in any county he wants. But he wants an appointment from the governor, and Brown now has a file on his poor record as an acting judge.
Having been passed over in multiple counties, perhaps the commissioner could be awarded the special honorific, "Ersatz Jurist", as in Ersatz Jurist Irwin Joseph.
George, maybe you could post a .pdf of a one-page 170.6 motion so your readers in Santa Clara County could simply and easily avoid this Jabberwock.
You lost me. If you want me to post something, then send it to me, or post it in the comments.
Sorry, that's a section of the Code of Civil Procedure which allows a party or attorney to ask one judge to recuse himself for no reason other than the affiant's belief that the judge is prejudiced against his interests. Sometimes referred to as a peremptory challenge, it can only be used for a limited time after the judge has been assigned and before he has made a substantive ruling on the case (other than scheduling and the like). I'm not handy enough with .pdf files to whip up a fillable form, but thought you might be. If you knew Ersatz Jurist Irwin Joseph back when as you do now, 170.6 would've been an appropriate tactic to keep him off your case.
Him being only a commissioner, I could have avoided Joseph by merely demanding a real judge. No motion required. I would have done that, if I knew then what I know now.
Apparently you're referring to California Code of Civil Procedure subsections 259(d) and 259(e). I'm not sure it's as clear as you make it seem. Some local courts seem to require the stipulation by the parties litigant in writing at the start of the hearing or else they come back another day in front of a real judge. But 259(e) makes it sound like the commissioner might go ahead with the hearing over an objection and make findings which would then need to be reviewed by a real judge (who might be annoyed and could simply rubber-stamp the commissioner). I think that's how child support hearings work according to Family Code section 4251, which is based on federal law.
good news indeed, thanks for posting, George.
sounds to me he's going to have to run for election then if he wants it bad enough. Would make for a very interesting campaign, especially when his record is brought to public light. I don't think he has the guts given his track record of being passed over and kicked out of Santa Cruz County. This is why he wanted an appointment directly from Brown to bypass that kind of public scrutiny.
The court in Santa Clara County has local family rule 1(D)(2), effective 7/1/12, which says the parties have to stipulate to having a commissioner hear the case by signing form FM-1112 before the hearing or else it will be assigned to a real judge on another day. So George, you're correct that Santa Clara County residents can avoid Irwin Joseph by simply not signing that form.
The corresponding rule in Santa Cruz County is more vague. The parties could be asked to stipulate orally at the start of the first hearIng and if one declines, then it sounds like a commissioner could go ahead with the hearing pursuant to 259(e). And he might be insulted and that might affect his judgment.
Glad to hear. This commissioners inability to properly review my case and inability to recognise a blatant act of alienation has ruined my relationship with my child. Even my attorney is fed up with him not acting or ruling appropriatly. Hopefully he moves somewhere else.
Hi George
I have been destroyed by this Commissioner for a year and have complained to the court and the Commission on Judicial Performance but he is determined every time to crucify me. Any suggestions for getting out of this mess
Thanks
Abraham
Wow, I have never seen such a corrupt, talentless, and heartless robed snow-job in all my life. This man is dangerous to our children and he needs to be removed immediately. I have no idea how that works, but I'm going to find out and proceed. We'll see who has the last laugh.
In two short hearings, he's taken everything that I care about for no reason other than to satisfy the petitioner whom has ill intent. Process and procedure is non-existent, no respect for the laws, but there is something more that goes beyond the scope of manners and skill. We cannot permit this activity whether on the local, county, or state level, it is an excess of power that's been abused far too long. I'm ready to begin a World Movement as a branch of the Federal Government which operates more transparently than the little guys. These little fellas need governing and accountability and the laws in which they violate need the issuance of citations and fees...and that should clean things up and balance it out.
I too am having my children alienated from me by Irwin Johnson. How can I get involved?
Write him a letter, he lives in Santa Cruz.
Write a letter to Irwin Joseph at 2220
Benson Ave, Santa Cruz Ca.
This is fantastic news. Irwin Joseph's lack of competency was evident each and every day that he was permitted, by Santa Cruz, to serve as a Commissioner. He was a poor lawyer; and, making a poor lawyer an individual with the power to alter the lives of children was always a dangerous and poorly thought out consideration by those in power in Santa Cruz. Perhaps, and one can only hope, the people will never permit such a bully, such as Irwin Joseph, to ever be present in the Court system sgain.
My two children and I have underwent significant mental stress. They have been the most affected. For example, 17 year old son current weight is more than 250. He was a 4.0 student who was already taking summer classes at UC Berkeley for future doctors (in 2013). He has struggled to keep an above 2.5 GPA since leaving with father. He missed more than 100 homework assignments on the first year his dad was the main resident parent in the home. He missed about 60 or more the following year. I paid a forensic psychologist to see my son, the results: Parental Alienation.
My young adult daughter who has lived with ADD and other disorders (speech)had a hard time graduating from college. She has also experienced significant weight gain, heavy menstrual bleeding, panic attacks, and she is currently living with her sexually perverted father. Her father is a former San Jose Police officer and a current Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputy. I push my case all the way to trial. I was told by an X judge at the conference settlement that there was no law or case law that could send my ex for mental evaluation, "such an invasive evaluation". She also told me, that if I kept pushing for the mental evaluation, I will be responsible for trial expenses. She said, porn is not illegal and my son is almost 17. Her message: "too late." Judge Joseph took my case on 2013; it is October 2015, the case is not over. Their strategy was to make case long enough so my son would become an adult and leave me with no means to make this sexually perverted guy, badge # 2006; DOB: 10/07/1955; Gilroy Resident, pay for all the harm he has caused. My mean now is social media.
My two children and I have underwent significant mental stress. They have been the most affected. For example, 17 year old son current weight is more than 250. He was a 4.0 student who was already taking summer classes at UC Berkeley for future doctors (in 2013). He has struggled to keep an above 2.5 GPA since leaving with father. He missed more than 100 homework assignments on the first year his dad was the main resident parent in the home. He missed about 60 or more the following year. I paid a forensic psychologist to see my son, the results: Parental Alienation.
My young adult daughter who has lived with ADD and other disorders (speech)had a hard time graduating from college. She has also experienced significant weight gain, heavy menstrual bleeding, panic attacks, and she is currently living with her sexually perverted father. Her father is a former San Jose Police officer and a current Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputy. I push my case all the way to trial. I was told by an X judge at the conference settlement that there was no law or case law that could send my ex for mental evaluation, "such an invasive evaluation". She also told me, that if I kept pushing for the mental evaluation, I will be responsible for trial expenses. She said, porn is not illegal and my son is almost 17. Her message: "too late." Judge Joseph took my case on 2013; it is October 2015, the case is not over. Their strategy was to make case long enough so my son would become an adult and leave me with no means to make this sexually perverted guy, badge # 2006; DOB: 10/07/1955; Gilroy Resident, pay for all the harm he has caused. My mean now is social media.
I have a person with knowledge on law and communicating with politicians that can help us plan and make changes to stop these corrupted judges' status quo. They fear public humiliation and loss of social status. We should work to give them what they fear the most. This has to be a well plan and organize movement. I am pretty sure all of us in this blog have the motivation to spend our time and other resources for this cause.
I am planning on making my case public, but it will probably be better if all of us unite and make all of our cases public at the same time. It is time to send Irwin Joseph for retirement with a record that will last after his life time. It seems he has strived for recognition. Thus, we should give him the recognition he deserves. I am thinking we can form a Santa Clara County Family Court watch group. We should not allow corrupted judges cause more harm to families. I have no fears, and I am willing to die if necessary. I do not fear these bunch of corrupted judges. What is the worse thing they can do to me? Kill me? So? I have just filed a rip off report on this judge. They take the power from the people and abuse that power until people organize and take that power back. I hope to get some feedback. I am aware these are old comments.
The only people that believe this man, Raymond Lorenzo's, poor man story are my two children and an old lady girlfriend he has now. I am concerned about this old lady having grandkids (girls). He is obviously using the lady to show a different image of the man he really is, one that enjoys child porn. He is probably telling this old lady I am crazy; this is what he said after my child porn allegations. His own family is not even talking to him. I told them what I found. They
have not talked to him after that. They probably feared the humiliation that was coming to them due to this guy's sexual perversions. The adult porn was not regular porn. It was porn in which women were abused and represented as dolls with no souls, and the like.
I guy who was also a former San Jose Police killed his wife and then himself few years ago. The news reported there were many 911 calls from the home before the tragedy. I wonder if Gilroy Police officers misrepresented the domestic violence reported for "marital issues." This is what they did with my calling, they wrote incident reports that failed to report all my statements. They wrote incident reports in a way that my ex would look good. They never wrote about the porn. There was a child porn investigation; I do not know what happened to that. My ex used to work for two judges, one a master judge, in a regular basis. Since my reporting he works one day per month. The Sheriff department wrote a letter to the court thought stating he was working less due to changes. They failed to report there was a child porn investigation on deputy. Corruption and abuse of power from any point you will see it.
The former two wives of this guy are: Cynthia Villarreal and Amelia Alcantar Villarreal. During the divorce process I leaned this guy kept his first marriage in secret for some reason. On Amelia's divorce documents, it shows this divorce was the first for him and the second for Amelia. Cynthia was the first woman he married.
Documents about all of my claims can be found through the Santa Clara county family court index and other counties. This guy picked a different county for each of his marriages.
Irwin Joseph, Lori Penn, and the two police officers that decided to give my ex a break by not reporting the porn addiction and the domestic violence incident are the persons responsible of all of my children mental distress, physical illnesses, and academic harm and so vocational future. What it takes to protect children from their mentally ill parents with a law enforcement badge?
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