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Watch your manners in courtroom, people. Same goes for you, honorable judges. See, Superior Court Judge James McBride was publicly reprimanded for his courtroom behavior on Tuesday. With cases going back to 2006, the Commission on Judicial Performance claims that McBride committed numerous offenses, breaking rules requiring judges to be "patient, dignified and courteous" to attorneys and their clients. But what we're all dying to know is this: What did he do? SF law types are encouraged to dish in the comments. Because we assumed sassy, impatient, undignified and discourteous judges landed their own daytime TV shows. Please advise.
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I spent six weeks on one McBridge's juries a couple years ago. He was occasionally sarcastic and snapped at people in ways that could be described as "discourteous" a couple times, but I never thought he was out of line. I assumed it was at least partly a persona he adopted for the benefit of the jury -- so that we would understand that he, too, wasn't thrilled at the prospect of hearing about asbestos for a month and a half, but that the price we pay for justice.
I do think, though, that he has a bit of a temper.
Gah, I mean McBride, not McBridge.
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Another judge that needs reprimanding is Bruce Van Hooris is Walnut Creek. Get em all! Enough is enough