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the resulting Order as pdf He made these decisions shortly after
the mother, also President of CFJ, filed a Motion to Recuse
and before he actually recused from the case. Among other things,
Judge Romero refused
to acknowledge evidence of a real estate conflict of interest between
the opposing attorney, Sandra
Morgan Little and the Guardian ad Litem, or attorney for the child.
He states in his order that mother and her attorney should have been
diligent enough to notice the real estate conflict earlier in the
case. But the law says under the Rules of Professional Regulation
(New Mexico Statutes Chapter 16) that the attorneys are responsible
for self-reporting such conflicts. Mother happened to notice the real
estate information in the county records because of her research for
CFJ. Judge Romero
also orders mother to take her $9000 college fund that she alone saved
for their child and move it to a bank in Norman, Oklahoma, allowing
it to come under father's control. A bank account is a terrible investment
plan for a fund that will not be used for eight more years. The child
lives here in Albuquerque, not in Oklahoma. In this manner, Judge
Ernesto Romero and other judges like him are responsible for the
bleeding of a family and their life savings, to the tune at times
of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few short years. Do you think
the courts should be able to take control of your life-long savings
fund for your child or children, tell you how and where to invest
it, and give control to others? This is what one would expect from
a communist or socialist country, but not from the democratic superpower
of the world. Finally, Judge Romero directly defies the Constitution
of the United States in section X of his order which states, "the
Clerk of the District Court is hereby ordered not to permit any party
in this litigation to file any further "responses" to this
Court's orders." The Rules of Civil Procedure allow for such
filing. Essentially, he is stifling mother's ability to object on
the record to bias as evidenced by th judge's failure to follow the
rules of civil procedure and his making of slanderous statements in
his orders that can be proven to be false from other information in
the docket file. According to the Second Judicial District Court Clerk's
office, they have been given orders not to allow mother to file anything
without the judge's written permission. Mother attempted to file a
Notice of Nonavailability and was prevented from doing so without
the judge's permission. On January 20, 2005, Mother attempted to file
a Notice of Appeal regarding this order. Once again she was prevented
from doing so without the judge's permission. This is a direct violation
of the First Amendment right to petition the court. Judge
RomeroJudge Romero
has no respect for the Constitution of the United States and the rights
it affords citizens. In his courtroom, litigants are regularly denied
such rights. Such a judge should be removed from the bench. Judge
Romero's actions, along with the complete failure of the New Mexico
Supreme Court and Judicial Standards board to act on numerous complaints
about his behavior, are exactly the reasons why we've gone down that
slippery slope such that our country's citizens have less rights with
respect to their own homes and families than the citizens of most
other countries in the world. What kind of "freedom" is
that? Something is broken when this kind of lawlessness is allowed
to run rampant on the part of a mere man who dons the robe. The robe
is sacred to our democracy, but the man is not. Remove the man or
the public will scoff and laugh at the robe as a joke. |