But the state Court of Appeals is warning Arizona judges to stay away from such issues.
And the appellate judges are advising parents who get divorced they need to be very careful in how they word the provisions of any parenting plan in a dissolution decree if they have strong feelings about religious training for their children.
In a unanimous ruling, the appellate judges struck down a ruling by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Mandell, an appointee of Gov. Doug Ducey. They said he is constitutionally precluded from issuing a ruling, even if he has testimony to support his conclusion.
Arizona Republic and the now-defunct
Phoenix Gazette.
At the time, Brown only had his story and the name of the man, remembers John Charland, who now works as Brown s attorney. Charland had handled a few sex abuse cases in the past and he found Brown immediately convincing, so they started looking for more information.
What they soon discovered was shocking. The man Brown says abused him, James Allen Robertson, had been convicted in 1980 of doing the same thing to other boys. A
Phoenix New Times article by Tom Kuhn from May 7, 1980, reported that he admitted to molesting 35 children under the age of 10. Ten boys he assaulted were other paperboys he supervised.
After
, Robertson called
New Times to discuss the case.
Robertson said he did not remember Gregory Brown, the plaintiff in the case, but he doesn t contest Brown s description of the event. Even though I don’t remember his name I don’t dispute the possibility because I was in a different frame of mind, he said. “I don’t dispute that I did crimes similar.”
Robertson said he had no hard evidence that anyone besides his direct boss Bresee knew about their crimes, although he had his suspicions from the way members of management interacted with them. He said he thought the company had opened itself up to liability by not better regulating the interactions between the youths employed to deliver papers and the adults supervising them.
By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
PHOENIX A Pinal County judge is being urged to toss out the latest and possibly the last challenge to the results of the presidential race in Arizona and the awarding of the state s 11 electoral college votes to Joe Biden.
Roopali Desai, who represents Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, told Judge Kevin White on Monday that Arizona law requires anyone filing a lawsuit contesting election results to be a qualified elector. And that, she said, means they need to be registered to vote.
Only thing is, Staci Burk is not currently registered. Nor was the Pinal County resident registered or voted in the just-completed election.
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