Judge, prosecutors questioned over jailing domestic-violence victim

Judge, prosecutors questioned over jailing domestic-violence victim, Aseminole County judge's accommodation to corruption and book a domestic-violence victim to three canicule in bastille for declining to affirm adjoin her antagonist is adopting questions about whether the case was handled appropriately.

The arena abundant in Jerri Collins' attorneys in July as a bawl woman approved to explain why she didn't appear the balloon for the ancestor of her 1-year-old son — even admitting a amendment appropriate her attendance and the adjudicator built-in a jury."Your Honor, I'm actual apologetic for not accessory …," said the woman. "I've been ambidextrous with abasement and a lot of claimed all-overs back this happened …"

A video of the proceeding shows Collins, a above prosecutor who took the bank in 2006, retorting: "You anticipate you're traveling to accept all-overs now? You haven't even apparent anxiety."

"You abandoned a cloister adjustment alive that this was not traveling to about-face out able-bodied for the state," she said.

As assembly placed the woman in handcuffs, she begged Collins for a altered outcome. But the adjudicator bankrupt her adhesive and told the woman to "turn around." The Orlando Sentinel is not anecdotic her because it does not name victims of calm abuse.

Jeanne Gold, arch controlling administrator of the domestic-violence-prevention accumulation SafeHouse, said she was afraid by the analysis of a victim who appeared to be too afraid to testify.

A above prosecutor in Seminole County, Gold said the victim should not be the ambition of the judge's annoyance over ashen cloister resources.

"I can't accusation the accompaniment for absent to get a bad guy, but you cannot angular on a victim of calm abandon to break the civic issues in our world," said Gold, who leads the Seminole County-based organization. "It's so unfair, and it just shows that there is a lot added apprenticeship needed."

A exact admonishment or association account would accept sufficed as punishment, she added.

Collins, who a lot of afresh won acclamation in 2014, would not comment, according to a backer for the cloister who said administrative belief prevented Collins from discussing cases that could be appealed.

Brevard-Seminole Arch Adjudicator John Galluzzo did not acknowledge to a appeal gluttonous comment.

Prosecutors in Phil Archer's Accompaniment Attorney's Office said it is attenuate for domestic-violence victims to be confined for antipathy of court, but it happens for altered reasons.
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