MEET REDNECK JUDGE TIMOTHY ELLENDER

WWLTV

What can you say about Louisiana Judge Timothy Ellander—who once earned a six month suspension without pay for wearing black face and a jail uniform to a party—except that he is at it again, as in suspended again—this time for being hostile and insensitive to an abused woman seeking a restraining order against her husband.

Judge Ellender received a 30 day suspension for violating the code of judicial conduct with inappropriate comments during a 2007 hearing on a domestic abuse case.

As explained by WWLTV:

“In court documents from the March 2, 2007 hearing, Judge Ellender questions why the couple didn’t just get a divorce rather than “go through this crap.”

“Ellender also instructed the couple on how they could file for a divorce without having to retain an attorney. The complainant responded that she wanted her husband to leave her and her children alone.

“According to court documents, Ellender said that the children belonged to the husband too and then he asked her to detail an incident that would show the problem.

“When she began by talking about a night when she, her husband and their daughters were in Subway eating, Ellender remarked, “Can’t you find a better place to eat than that?”

“As the woman pressed on, she said tht one of her daughters was being very active and that her husband told her he was going to bring her to the bathroom and that it would be bloody.

“Ellender asked the father if that was true and he replied that he did say he would whip her butt and make it bleed.

“Ellender responded by saying, “Good for you.”

“The woman then went on to detail other incidents and Ellender ended the hearing by telling the woman that if she wanted a divorce she should get one, but that she wouldn’t get the TRO.”

Way to go Judge Ellander! (This is, after all, the South, is it not?)

See also, Judge of the Day: Timothy C. Ellender (Above the Law).