Lisa Foster is a retired judge and the former director of the Office for Access to Justice at the United States Department of Justice. As a California Superior Court Judge in San Diego, where she served 10 years, Judge Foster presided over criminal, family and civil cases and served as the presiding judge of the court’s appellate division.
The whole world was laughing at Corey Harris, a 44-year-old Michigan man who Zoomed into a May 15 court hearing on charges of driving with a suspended license — from behind the wheel of his car. The judge responded by ordering him to report to jail. “I’m pulling into my doctor’s office, actually,” Harris said when Washtenaw County Judge Cedric J. Simpson asked him if he was driving. “Just give me one second. I’m parking right now.
As the Federal Reserve Board just reported, roughly 40% of Americans do not have ready access to $400 in the event of an emergency, which means many people can’t pay a traffic ticket without sacrificing food, rent or other necessities for themselves or their families. A study of unpaid child support found about 70 percent of past-due child support is owed by parents with no reported income or an income of $10,000 or less per year.
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