by Peter Twitchell
The television networks, have been showing law judges trying cases on television that millions of people watch each day. Judges on television hear cases every day about personal injuries, and other legal matters. If you add up all the judges on television that hear a case in their courtroom, it is a lot.
In my younger years I was picked for jury duty and heard dozens of various criminal cases in Alaskan court rooms. I’ve witnessed dozens of natives going to jail and being prosecuted and incarcerated for various crimes against humanity.
I’ve had jury duty in my hometown Bethel, Alaska and been on jury duty in cities like Anchorage and heard many cases being tried in front of the judicial judge in the courtroom. I also translated a number of times for native Elders who could not speak the English language or understand it.
I witnessed with my own eyes and ears a case where the woman accused her husband of injuring her hand. The judge and the prosecutor grilled the native man about domestic violence and injuring his wife’s hand.
The man told His Honor the judge, “No I did not injure my wife’s hand,” and he also stated, “I don’t believe in hurting women.”
The end result with the accused man was he was charged with “domestic violence,” “injuring his wife’s hand.” As a result of this case that I witnessed and heard, the native man today cannot possess or own a gun to hunt with.
This is Alaska, men since they were old enough to shoot a gun owned a gun and put food in to their family’s stomach. Unfortunately this man that was charged for injuring his wife’s hand cannot have a gun although he may be out on the tundra with a rifle to protect his family from a wild animal like a bear for example.
I watch Judge Judy every chance I get on Channel 2 and watch her in action on television in her courtroom listening to cases of a violent or criminal nature.
Recently I watched Judge Judy listen to a woman plaintive who said her husband “hurt her hand.”
In this television courtroom program, Judge Judy asks the woman plaintiff who is charging her husband with hurting her hand, “Do you have proof? A police report or a doctors medical report on your injury.”
The woman replied, “No your Honor. I do not have a report by the police or the doctor.”
To make a long story short Judge Judy said, “I rule in favor of your husband, not guilty.”
The judge in this case was not presented with a police report or a doctors report of any physical injury to the woman’s hand.
