The lawsuit states Judge Kenneth King violated the teen's constitutional rights when he detained her after she fell asleep in his courtroom.

The teen girl without a permanent home who was forced to don jail garb, wear handcuffs and ask for mercy after falling asleep in a courtroom is suing the Detroit judge who had her taken into custody.

Eva Goodman, 15, and her mother filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan against 36th District Judge Kenneth King. They allege he violated the teen’s civil rights, arguing King acted outside the scope of his judicial authority when he detained her, yelled at her and threatened her with jail time.

  • Ellia Plissken@lemm.eeEnglish
    38·
    3 months ago

    it’s time for judges to get a fucking wakeup call. the amount of authority they have in a courtroom feels like the leftover vestiges of the English monarchy that are supposed to technically exist but not actually be exercised

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
      10·
      3 months ago

      They need to be reminded that their authority is a thinly veiled concession. We make toward public order and if they forget and start to think it’s about them and “their honour” then they need to feel the savage fury commensurate with unseen suffering they hand out on the daily.

      • unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        3 months ago

        It is about them and their honour.

        However, their honour isn’t how they’re percieved and treated by others, it’s how they themselves act. They’re the first ones who should show honour and dignity towards their defendants, clerks, etc.

        Angry fits like this one just show the judge got corrupted by power and should either be given time to reflect or disbarred.