A Democratic Party-backed judge who won re-election in November while facing battery charges was found not guilty Monday–by reason of insanity.
The insanity verdict could aid the judge's effort to return to the bench.
Not long after Judge Cynthia Brim was charged in March with misdemeanor battery for shoving a deputy outside the Daley Center, a panel of supervising judges effectively suspended her, banning Brim from the county's courthouses without a police escort.
Bar associations have recommended since 2000 that Brim be tossed from her $182,000-a-year job, but voters have kept returning her to the bench. Experts have said Brim's case highlights the difficulty of unseating a judge up for retention in Cook County.
On Monday, less than a year after the judge embarked on what attorneys described as a delusional journey across the city that ended with her in handcuffs, Brim sat at a wooden table marked "Defendant" on the 13th floor of the Daley Center for a highly unusual bench trial.
Testimony revealed that Brim has been hospitalized five times after suffering mental breakdowns in the 18 years since she was first elected. In 2004, Brim was carried off the bench at a suburban courthouse after she froze while addressing her courtroom before starting the day, standing mute until someone called paramedics, her attorney said.
http://www.federalobserver.com/2013/02/06/recently-re-elected-chicago-judge-is-legally-insane/ (http://www.federalobserver.com/2013/02/06/recently-re-elected-chicago-judge-is-legally-insane/)
Is anyone really surprised she keeps getting reelected? This is Chicago after all.
I guarentee you she is a flaming liberal who hates cops and lets thugs and crooks go free every chance she gets.
Billy