Gunn Goes Off In Drug Court Transcript
Posted: August 27, 2011 at 5:37 a.m.
A 2009 transcript of an exchange between Judge Mary Ann Gunn and a drug court participant raises questions about Gunn’s assurances court participants could opt out of having their cases televised.
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You say: “'I’ve yet to see any demonstration that putting drug abusers on TV is a sound therapeutic practice,' said Brantley, who claims Gunn refuses to return his calls." Both Gunn and Brantley are quoted. Did you even bother to ask her whether she refuses to talk to Brantley or has failed to return any calls, or do you just like the word "claims" because you like ex-judge Gunn?
Show at little journalistic integrity here by getting the facts and then not making Brantley look like a fabricator.
Posted by: TuckerMax
August 27, 2011 at 2:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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Yes the staff or bosses at THIS PAPER like Judge Gunn:
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from editorial in this paper Aug 18:
No one challenged this practice in a suit brought before an appropriate court while these recordings were being made. Everyone who entered drug court did so as an alternative to going to trial on a felony charge. It was an opportunity to get off drugs and get the defendant’s life in order.
Remarkably successful as it was, many people failed the drug court program. None of them successfully appealed and protested that either the televising or the recording of drug court harmed his or her case in any way.
No one claimed until recently that any harm was done by these recordings being preserved. Nothing was recorded that didn’t take place in an open courtroom. Any member of the public who was so inclined could have gone to court on any particular day, sat in the audience and watched the proceedings."
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Brantley at the Ark Times makes a rightful claim that NO studies have ever been done which validate this paper's blind assumption that televised drug court reduces drug abuse or rehabilitates the accused.
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http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/...
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"It is no "claim," but fact, that Gunn won't talk to me. If she would talk to me, I'd ask, though the reporter apparently didn't, about reports of paper drug court records removed from the courthouse by Gunn after she left the bench. The records were returned after another judge complained. I'm told they're now in a locked room in the Washington County courthouse."
--Max Brantley, Ark Times Aug 27, 2011.
Posted by: cdawg
August 27, 2011 at 3:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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