Handwritten motion gives the reasons for Judge Strother’s Recusal
Waco – Like a prowling tigress slowly circling a quiet village, the lady barrister Casie Gotro lured her prey with papers of the court.
She built her trap with words and facts, and as she worked, she tempted 19th Criminal District Judge Ralph T. Strother to underestimate her capacity for the logic behind legal principles – until it was too late.
When she stood inside the well of the Court, past the Temple Barre, she allowed him to speak to more than 200 prospective jurymen and women, and then by filing a motion supported by a legal memorandum used to persuade Judge James Morgan to grant recusal motions by three other defendants, she caused a bailiff to hand him an instrument so keenly whetted it made his face flush, sweat to pop out on his forehead, and resulted in a series of rapidly cycling grimaces that made his visage terrible to behold.
Four large-screen television screens blew his facial tics up to at least five times actual size, and hundreds of ordinary people sat observing in a disintersted and detached way as they headed out for a long holiday weekend at summer’s end.
The motion is scrawled in her own hand, something the highest courts in the nation have ruled is no handicap in pre-trial proceedings in courts of original jurisdiction.
Quite simply, such motions may not be rejected because they are “inartfully drawn.” It’s not the steak; in this case, it’s the sizzle.
With great economy of words, Ms. Gotro informed the Court that the Defendant, Jake Carrizal files his motion for the following reasons:
The Court has:
- assisted the State in prosecuting the Defendant;
- acted to prevent Counsel from accessing evidence, addressing the Court, making legal arguments, preserving the record, and;
- “stated without reading any motion to recuse the Court would not be granted;”
- and “refused without reading any of the 18 subpoenaes to enforce or order compliance” by those so subpoenaed.
“For these reasons, Judge Stother should be recused.”
Sincerely,
Casie Gotro
Defense Counsel
So mote it be.
- The Legendary
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