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Rebecca DeMoss
Originally published on March 15, 2021 6:14 pm
Prosecutors and public defenders in Clark County are pushing for more consequences after a district court judge derided a Black man killed by police in October.
Barrar Law Firm, among the largest defense firms in Southwest Washington, on Monday called for Judge Darvin Zimmerman’s resignation following the recorded and broadcast comments.
“The bias and the racism displayed in his comments have no place in our community and no place in our courtrooms,” the law firm said in a statement. “We must hold judicial officers to a high standard so that everyone in our community has equal access to justice.”
Judge caught on hot mic denigrating Kevin Peterson Jr., calls him: ‘the Black guy they are trying to make an angel out of’
Updated Mar 19, 2021;
Posted Mar 13, 2021
District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman spoke at length about his views of the fatal shooting by police of Kevin Peterson Jr. with District Court Commissioner Abigail Bartlett. Their conversation was recorded on a hot mic earlier this week.
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A Clark County judge apparently didn’t realize his courtroom conversation was live on YouTube as he referred to a young man killed last fall by sheriff’s deputies as “the Black guy they are trying to make an angel out of” and called him “dumb” for supposedly thinking he would go to prison for a relatively small drug bust.
Judge Zimmerman caught on hot mic denigrating Kevin Peterson Jr. By Noelle Crombie, oregonlive.com
Share: The Clark County Sheriff s Office, Vancouver Police Department and Washington State Patrol investigate the shooting in Hazel Dell on Oct. 29. (Courtesy of KOIN 6 News)
A Clark County judge apparently didn’t realize his courtroom conversation was live on YouTube as he referred to young man killed last fall by sheriff’s deputies as “the Black guy they are trying to make an angel out of” and called him “dumb” for supposedly thinking he would go to prison for a relatively small drug bust.
District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman, 70, also said Kevin Peterson Jr. “had a death wish” as well as disparaging Peterson’s father and defending his own son, a deputy who was on the drug task force trying to arrest Peterson.
Pro bono program is helping fill a critical access-to-justice gap
In theory, all litigants have the right to appeal a trial court’s ruling in a civil case. In practice, appeals are expensive, so many people have no realistic way of exercising this right unless they can find help.
Take one typical case. More than a decade ago, a Durham County woman inherited a house and the mortgage that came with it. She fell on hard times and is facing foreclosure after a trial court ruled that the lienholder is entitled to collect on the defaulted loan.
Matt Krueger-Andes of Fox Rothschild, who is representing the woman pro bono, said that the loan has been passed from bank to bank. He appeared before the state’s Court of Appeals to argue that the current lienholder doesn’t legally hold the note.