Cook County Judge Cynthia Brim was found not guilty Monday by reason of insanity after a misdemeanor battery trial, the Sun-Times Media reports.
Judge Brim was in court for shoving a Sheriff’s deputy back in March after he asked her why she decided to throw her keys at a security checkpoint at the Daley Center, according to the report. She was dressed in hospital scrubs and a fur coat at the time of the confrontation, and allegedly off her medications.
Brim has a history of bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder that predates her move up to the bench in 1994, the Sun-Times reports, and she’s been hospitalized five times since 1993 for psychotic episodes.
Nonetheless, Brim won re-election for her $182,000 yearly position last November in spite of consistently low marks from local bar associations.
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Someone in the dem slating committee should be made to answer how they got her elected and why they selected her over MANY highly qualified judicial candidates. Anyone know the process for having a judge removed from office for being incompetent and crazy?
We now see the new way to excuse poor work performance, extended absence (and still get paid) or aggressive behavior. Get diagnosed as bipolar.
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