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It's weird how when you read a story about someone you don't know you just assume it's true. But if you know the person, you can often have just the opposite reaction.
Case in point: Tarrant County Judge Elizabeth Berry is facing heat because an email which allegedly bore her signature (a cursive jpg signature that she never uses) had this in it:
"Judy, we will talk in-depth later about the Reggie issue. I agree with you, though. I am not at all satisfied. Who does that fat [N-word] think he is anyway? We will handle him one way or another!"I know Elizabeth. Elizabeth is a friend of mine. Elizabeth is no racist. (Funny story about our first meeting here.) Disclaimer: I practice law in only Wise and Jack Counties and never appear before her in Tarrant County.
The Dallas Morning News story basically gives you enough information to conclude that the allegations aren't true. And you would think that, at the very least, the email could be traced back to a particular computer at a particular day and time which should clear her name. In the meantime, she gets her name associated with the "N word". Not good times.
11 comments:
Good judge.
Sounds like an employee issue.
Welcome to the world of being a public official and being unfairly (and inaccurately) treated by the media (while they brag about all the "honors" and "awards" they have received from their colleagues, which is nothing more than a form of mutual back slapping)! You'd think that at least SOME of those "awards" would mention TRUTH and ACCURACY in their titles.
She said it...next.
They're called "headers", Barron. Yes, it is traceable. But headers can be forged, too.
DMN reports that county computer logs show no emails passing between the judge and her court reporter for several weeks, including the date of this alleged email. It is a total fabrication, and not a very good one at that. I too know Judge Berry very well and the thought of her doing something like this is laughable, were it not such a serious allegation.
She would never had said that. I can assure you.
We who post here may well want to remember the blog owner knows who we are and may be talking to folks about our posts.
Sounds like somebody is after this judge.
And by the way, Barry, it IS refreshing to see an intelligent looking face on the blog rather than exposed body parts from the neck down.
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I bet it was done by a person of color just like the black professor at Columbia who found the noose on her office door and then later confessed to putting it there herself. These pathetic people have to keep racism alive to keep up their woe is me lifestyle.
Fake but accurate. Ain't that right Dan Rather and Mary Mapes?
That's too bad. Poor Elizabeth.
You say you know Judge Berry and that she is not a racist. I too have met Judge Berry, but only once. It was during the the Dodd trial (Ft. Worth Police Officer Hank Nava's murderer). I happened to be in the Tarrant County Criminal Courts Building (on unrelated buisness)on the first day of the sentincing trial for Dodd. When my buisness was complete I was fortunate enough to sit in on about three hours of the trial. (mind you I work for a law enforcement agency here in wise county and was in full uniform) After sitting in the courtroom of Judge Berry for those three hrs she called for a recess. During that recess Judge Berry had me removed from her courtroom and banned from the entire courts building for the simple reason that I was from the Wise County area. Judge Berry relayed to the Tarrant County Sheriff's Dept. Sergeant (that escorted me from the building) that she felt I may be an white supremacist and be there to harm Dodd. So apparently according to Judge Berry anyone who is from Wise County may be a racist, and that sounds racist to me.
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