Ken Pollock Not a Likable Judge?
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New Border Risk: ISIS NAACP to host 105th Druckman v. Ruscitti: [now Islamic State] ties Annual National A controversial child to Mexican Drug Lords Convention in Las Vegas custody opinion PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 9 Volume 16, Issue 18 July 9-15, 2014 Ward 5 Chamber of Commerce Member Why Lombardo? Because money talks and BS walks By Rolando Larraz makes others wonder why he keeps tors who have filled his pockets sis. ... It’s very hard for somebody Las Vegas Tribune begging like a homeless person. with money. to show up day one and take the Assistant Sheriff Joe Lombardo On July 10 he is having another Metro’s protégée and the daily reigns of that office.” is the favorite to take the place of fund-raising, but only for the privi- paper’s reporter, Mike Blasky, He is still in Metro because it is outgoing Sheriff Douglas Gillespie leged — perhaps with the same wrote on May 25 of this year, “He convenient for him and maybe his to keep the same regime, the same members of the Million Dollar Club (Lombardo) has been an officer boss suggested to him that there is policy, and, in reality, the same of at a famous Italian restaurant that with Metro for 25 years, the last no need to leave if the office is his. everything; there would not be at one time welcomed the same three as an assistant sheriff. He Who told Lombardo that his oppo- much of a change from the present people that Gillespie, Lombardo commanded several divisions at nent Captain Larry Burns does not administration except moving and their crew supposedly were Metro, including Homeland Secu- meet those officers on a daily ba- Lombardo from a mid-size office chasing. rity, search and rescue and patrol.” sis? to a bigger office, now occupied by Lombardo’s arrogance is that Big deal! Every other candidate How hard does he think it would his handler. obvious; eating at that Italian res- running in that race before the June be for Larry Burns to take the reigns There would be no hope that dis- taurant takes a month’s salary from 10 primary election has the same of that office? Not that hard; Burns crimination against the Spanish- a normal, average individual that or more time at Metro and has ful- has had the same office experience owned Las Vegas Tribune would works for a living, the kind of indi- filled some of the same assignments and has the intelligence of coming stop and the newspaper would once vidual that Lombardo does not need as Lombardo. in with the right team to take over again be accepted as part of the or want to deal with. On June 10 of this year Metro and convert the department media in Clark County — as it was Assistant Sheriff Joe Lombardo The average citizen is not going Lombardo told his protégée at the into a real police department serv- before the present administration a million dollars on the Strip alone to receive the same service or pro- daily paper, Mike Blasky, “I’m still ing the community as a whole. under Gillespie took over — and all and is still begging for contributions tection from Lombardo’s regime as working at Metro. I’m still meet- Burns is a street cop; when was because the newspaper did not en- of any kind and any amount; it those wealthy casino owner-opera- ing those (officers) on a daily ba- (See Lombardo, Page 4) dorse or support any of Gillespie’s campaigns. Lombardo has raised more than Ken Pollock not a likable judge? My Point By Alexandra Cohen tied for the lowest number of ap- challenge a good judge while other Las Vegas Tribune peals in Clark County,” wrote the judges with fewer worthwhile On January 14 of this year, Las newspaper; and yet most important qualifications are running unop- of View Vegas Tribune’s founder, Rolando of all, the newspaper noted that posed. By Rolando Larraz Larraz, wrote a front page article Judge Pollock has never been re- That opened the inquiring eyes clearly pointing out some of the versed by the state’s highest court. of the Las Vegas Tribune’s investi- I am one of those people who qualities that normally go hand-in- Saying that the Supreme Court gative team and they discovered believes in security. I believe in hand with the name of District agrees with a judge’s ruling 91 per- that the attorneys who openly and/ cameras, gates, bars on windows Court Family Division Judge Ken- cent of the time is a recognition that or privately display an antagonistic and recording devices for my own neth Pollock. not too many judges can brag about, attitude toward, or hold a negative security and protection; and those “Judge Pollock’s administrative especially in Family Court, which opinion of, Judge Pollock, do so who have been in my home know and case management skills have has been plagued with controver- because the judge follows the rule that I am not just spouting words helped him reach many milestones: sial accusations of abuse of power, of law and is not intimidated by any — I practice what I preach. hearing the most motions in Fam- misconduct and child brokering. other attorney. I don’t even think that security ily Court; being second in the fam- With all these noticeable and That opens up discussion as to in public places is a bad thing at all, ily division with the most trials and identifiable qualifications evident why Judge Kenneth Pollock is not and I have mentioned on many oc- conferences heard...,” the newspa- when it comes to evaluating a intimidated by any attorney; we dis- casions that going through the se- per wrote. judge’s past years on the bench, covered that Judge Pollock is a self- curity gate at the Regional Justice Among those distinguished District Court Family Division why is it that some attorneys don’t supported candidate: he puts his Center doesn’t bother me, but... and qualities were also two facts that Judge Kenneth Pollock like him? And now, one judge in money where his mouth is. there is always a but. should allow litigants in family decided on their individual case’s particular even allows her bully Judge Pollock does not solicit I have the habit of standing by court peace of mind and a justified merit and merit only. campaign manager to make a fool any campaign contributions; if the security gate at the Regional assurance that their cases will be “Judge Pollock’s name has been out of her by encouraging her to (See Pollock, Page 5) Justice Center and talking to the marshals and attorneys coming in and looking at the people’s faces when they are coming in and have Pot learning curve: Washington cribs to start taking part of their clothes off. Sometimes they are lucky and from Colorado’s legalization rollout get good marshals; sometimes they Washington allowed legal sales of recreational marijuana for the first time Tuesday, taking lessons from get new marshals that try to imitate their counterparts in Metro and act Colorado’s experience. Pot-laced ‘edibles,’ which can be especially potent, are one product getting extra attention. rude and nasty, trying to scare those By Amanda Paulson The two states have been under who are coming to court — maybe Christian Science Monitor scrutiny as they embark on test for a traffic ticket they forgot to pay, Boulder, Colo. — Residents of cases in legalization, watched perhaps for having an argument Washington State could buy recre- closely by everyone from legaliza- with a neighbor or a spouse, but ational marijuana legally for the tion critics to advocates pushing nothing that bad. These new mar- first time Tuesday — though only legal marijuana in other states, in- shals don’t realize that not all about six of the 24 shops issued li- cluding Oregon and Alaska. Ob- people entering the courthouse censes planned to be open for the servers are keeping tabs both on building are criminals and some of first day of business. how smoothly the rollout goes, as them are even a little nervous or It’s a sharp contrast to Colorado, well as looking to the differences scared. which legalized marijuana at the in the two states’ approaches. However, that is not the point of same time as Washington (Nov. 6, “We’re watching [the legaliza- this article; the point is that the other 2012), but where pot shops have tion process in Colorado and Wash- day while I was at my point of ob- been selling the drug to recreational ington] very closely, and it’s very servation I saw something very dis- users since Jan. 1 of this year. Colo- useful,” says Peter Zuckerman, a A customer sniffs a strain of recreational marijuana at Top Shelf tressful that bothered me very rado also issued 136 licenses to sell spokesman for New Approach Or- Cannabis on Tuesday in Bellingham, Wash., during the first half-hour much. recreational pot before that date, egon, which has helped craft a bal- of legal sales in the state. Samples are not allowed, but customers can I saw an elderly lady walking although only about 40 began sell- lot measure to legalize recreational (See Maraijuana, Page 4) use ‘sniff jars’ to help make their purchasing decisions. from the gate to the dressing room ing it in the first week of January. (that is what I call that little space FROM THE DESK OF GORDON MARTINES by the information booth about 50 to 75 feet from the gate where people coming in are allowed to compose themselves before going LVMPD’S use of the words Accountability, on with whatever business brought them to the courthouse or before Transparency, Honor should be forbidden appearing before a judge after tak- By Gordon Martines while they were exercising their are not allowed to use the words Aid drinkers — violently ill.