Judge Patricia Baca Bennett "Knows" What Isn't So

Judge Patricia Baca Bennett "Knows" What isn't So

By

James Scott Trimm

In this blog we recently broke the news that James Munford's Ex-Wife has come forward to recount her years of physical abuse and sexual assault at his hands.  (Click Here to Read).

Family Court Judge Patricia Baca Bennett has injected herself into a local judicial race (something sitting judges normally do not do).  Although James Munford himself has after more than three weeks, still failed to issue a flat denial, and while Terry Munford has failed during this same time to publish a statement, Judge Bennett seems to feel it is her job to speak for them both. 

Judge Bennett admits her bias, saying that she has known Munford since 1995, that she knows Terry Munford as well, and that she does not know Munford's ex-wife at all. 

Judge Bennett claims to have some special knowledge that "they treat each other with respect and dignity" and that James Munford "treats his wife with respect and dignity".

The fact is that Judge Bennett does not have any first hand knowledge of this matter.  And even though James Munford himself did not publish a flat out denial  Judge Bennett has injected herself into the matter anyway.
  
Yesterday corroborating evidence from a second source was published in this blog.

Read the recent blog Terry Munford's Close Friend: She was Terrified of her Husband!

While Judge Patricia Baca Bennett has taken the extraordinary step of making herself Munsord's campaign spokesman saying "They treat each other with love and respect" and "I know he treats her with respect and dignity. I know she would demand nothing less."  Terry Munford's very close friend has stated that Terry told him that Terry was actually terrified of her husband. 

Judge Bennett "knows" things she could not possibly know, and reminds me of those whom Ronald Reagan said "know so much that isn't so."  

Should a Family court judge presume to magically "know" whether or not a couple treats each other with respect, or whether or not a spouse would demand that kind of treatment without even hearing the witnesses?  

Should a Family Court judge so easily dismiss a woman's claims that she was physically abused and sexually assaulted by her spouse?  

Here is one case where Judge Bennett has made a judgements based on her somehow "knowing" these things and now it has turned out that she was completely wrong!  Is she making such bad presumptions about abused women in her courtroom? 

Should a Family Court judge be acting as spokesperson for a judicial candidate, especially one who has multiple reports of being a spousal abuser?