A mother is punished for choosing to be a mother by the courts... Judge needs to be disbarred

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Oakland Circuit Judge Leo Bowman gets a warning from state. (2007 photo by KATHLEEN GALLIGAN/DFP)

Judge's move to jail juror is 

criticized by state court

BY L.L. BRASIER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

Mom had to weigh day care, civic duty

Carmela Khury, a stay-at-home mom in Rochester Hills, was juggling child care and a jury summons.


When she was late the second day of jury selection because her mother was undergoing oral surgery, a backup nanny fell through and her husband was already at work, she called Oakland County Circuit Court. Told the judge would arrest her if she didn't show up, she arrived at court late along with her 8-month-old and 3-year-old.

Circuit Judge Leo Bowman found her in contempt, ordered her to sit as a spectator for the expected two-week-long murder trial and sentenced her to 24 hours in the county jail, to be served after the trial.

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I seriously want to get a bag of bricks and knock some sense into some insensitive people.

WTH!

Bowman needs to be drawn and quartered by the Michigan State Court Adminstrative Office for making this woman sacrifice and given the emotional toil he has put her through, I would be calling some attorney to roast him.

This isn't the first time he has wreck havoc on potential jurors, but whether the jurors are trying to evade duty or not, the only option a judge has would be to leave them on the panel or dismiss them.

In other cases, Bowman detained for days: a Wayne State University medical student because he said his midterm exams would interfere with his jury duty; a woman who said she could not serve on a sex case because she had once been sexually assaulted, and a woman who said her husband's pending travel overseas would create a hardship for her family because she had no day care for her small children.
As a mother, I really feel for Khury and I hope soon someone puts Bowman in his place and rectify the damage he is doing to people, families and on our law system as a whole.

What do you think?