At Cook County Judge Cynthia Brim’s trial this week, “she was found not guilty of misdemeanor battery because she was ‘legally insane’ at the time.” Cook County voters re-elected Brim in November despite reports of her troubles [South Bend Tribune/Chicago Tribune, earlier]
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If they try to fire her she will have an ADA claim.
So it comes out at trial that Brim has been hospitalized five times in the last 9 years.
Didn’t anybody notice? Didn’t anybody ask “Poor Judge Brim is in the hospital, what does she have?”
In Chicago, does having a legally insane presiding Judge create an issue for appeal?
I understand that it’s a problem that this judge keeps getting elected, but doesn’t Illinois have a method for removing judges other than not electing them? I would hope that psychosis would be grounds for disbarment, which would, presumably, make her ineligible to serve as a judge.