Sweet H. A.
1/5
Judge Baker...good luck going before him. We just came from court and the way he just treated my husband is absolutely appalling. What I learned from this trip is that if you come to court dressed respectfully and you've done everything you're supposed to, you will be treated with zero respect whatsoever, but if you show up dressed as if you are on the way to let's say possibly do an "illegal" transaction and you smell like marijuana (this room reeked of marijuana) you will be treated fine.
Years ago my husband got on what is referred to by another (excellent) Judge as the "no license merry-go-round," in which once you lose your license which was due to a speeding ticket, he then got to the point when he would get other tickets that it got so expensive he could not get it back and could no longer drive. A few years ago my husband started getting all of this cleared up through the help of our daughter who is an attorney herself (Boston College Law School), though she can only advise him because she is not licensed to practice in the State of Alabama. Once everything was cleared up/paid and the State of Alabama gave him the paperwork showing that he had no more tickets, he then got his letter of reinstatement from the State Troopers Post in Tuscaloosa Alabama, which is the same place where he did his driving test, therefore CLEARLY, he thought that his tickets were all cleared up...otherwise the State of Alabama would not have let him get his license again.
Two weeks ago my husband was in a car accident and the police officer at the scene told him that he had a ticket that had not been cleared up at Adamsville. Of course this took my husband by surprise, however, he did the correct thing and called Adamsville that very day and asked what he needed to do. The lady on the phone who was also in court today (and who also did not understand why the Judge acted the way he did, she even went and spoke to him post-ruling), told him that he could come to the next court date on November the 28th, 2023 (today), and that is what we did. My husband took a day off of work just to attend. I sat there and watched the "Judge" work with person after person with Failure to Appears and many other types of situations going on and never once was he rude or hateful to anyone (and mind you, none had the respect to dress appropriately or to speak respectfully to the Court). Except when it came to my husband because for whatever reason, the Judge was extremely hateful, rude and disrespectful and he would not even let him explain the situation (as he let others do) and show him the paper from the State of Alabama that shows that his record was cleared and was okay'd to get his license (which he did, he's had his license over 2 years now, so clearly everything has been okay). The Judge was so unwilling to listen that when my husband began speaking, he said to my husband in a very stern tone "be very, very careful about what you're about to say," when he was trying to explain the situation.
I don't know what has happened to this world it's like everything has been flipped. If you try to be a good person and pay it forward and do what's right in life and you have no criminal history- nothing but bad things tend to happen; but if you're the opposite of that, they'll bend over backwards for you. How is this correct? I saw the Judge give a lady with medical issues leniency yet you don't know what my husband goes through. He lives with cancer every day of his life and a wife who has a disease and mental health issues. These things assure me that I need to leave this world by my own hand.
So I guess there's nothing else to say. I thought Judges were supposed to be impartial, but this one is not and he singled my husband out. He had his mind made up already and he didn't care. I hope others have a better experience. Very disappointed.
