El Dorado County judge admonished by judicial commission
By Carlos Alcala, Sacramento Bee
El Dorado County Superior Court Judge James R. Wagoner has received public admonishment from the California Commission on Judicial Performance.
The admonishment is the lowest of three levels of public discipline administered by the Commission and has neither further sanctions nor appeals.
The commission’s investigation showed that Wagoner, currently assistant presiding judge in El Dorado County, acted outside his authority in having Penny Arnold jailed on July 16, 2010.
Wagoner left his second floor courtroom in the Main Street Courthouse in Placerville and ordered Arnold to his courtroom.
When she would not comply, he had bailiffs arrest her for contempt.
From personal experience with this judge when I was a county official. He is unethical, intellectually dishonest, and subject to a superman complex.
Read the letters that accompany the whole story in the Bee.
A slap on the wrist is not enough to correct this powerful man’s predisposition to corrupt the third leg of our democratic republic.
I believe the same kind of I am god I make the ruling to be true about judge nelson brooks. He does not care about the welfare and the citizens of his court. He makes really bad decisions and should not be a judge in Eldorado county.
I looked up Judge Brooks and he was a injury lawyer. What kind of experience does he have with people who are criminals? Why not vote for a better more qualified judge next time. He does not have the experience for the postion he is in. We the people should look up their experience first before we put a judge who us not qualified to be a judge. John