Halverson Hearing Day 5 (dear God, she's not removed from office yet)

Breaking News: Judge Halverson just suffered a "hypoglycemic" event after testifying and the hearing has been suspended until after lunch. [I'm not a licensed physician, but I think "hypoglycemic" is defined as "having physical problems because you let yourself get sooooo fat] They will resume if she feels better. (Las Vegas Now)

If the hearings resume, you see a live feed on Las Vegas Now's website.

Yesterday, Halverson painted herself as the victim of too much attention from her Bailiff. (Review-Journal) She claimed "He tried to insist on putting them (slippers) on and off. We had fight after fight after fight about them because I told him repeatedly, 'I don't need you to put them on and off,'" she said. Halverson then attempted to show that she was being criticized for trying to break up a conspiracy where judges commonly referred traffic ticket matters to attorneys. (Review-Journal)

Today, Halverson named the witnesses she will call to testify at her disciplinary hearing next week, including Nevada Supreme Court Justice Michael Cherry and District Judge Michelle Leavitt. (Review-Journal) [uh, seriously. she can call a Supreme Court Justice? clearly this is too much due process]

Some highlights from Halverson's hearing today (via the commenter at Abovethelaw.com who has been blogging minute to minute through the entire hearing):

• Halverson views a violation of the 4th Amendment as "an assault" (link);
• Halverson claims that her Bailiff Jonnie Jordan told her he did not want to leave her court and later that he wanted to come back (link);
• she denies Judge Bell told her to stay away from Jordan (link);
• she did not require that Mr. Jordan heat and serve her meals (link);
• she never yelled at the Jordan (comment 274), never yelled that her water was not cold enough (comment 275) and never required him to clean the link off her robe (comment 277) (link);
• she says that Jordan is a liar (link);
• she never ordered Jordan to give her a foot rub. The Bailiff tried to rub her foot once and she said “Jonnie what are you doing? I said this is inappropriate" and made him stop. (link);
• she doesn't recall calling her husband names when talking about him to other employees, never called Spoor an idiot and never called Kathy Struber the devil incarnate. (link);
• she denies Judge Cherry talked to her about being civil to her employees, denies telling Lisa Carroll she was a faux Jew and "sort of" called Ken Pollack a faux Jew. (link)

By the way, if you'd like to read her most recent petition to the Nevada Supreme Court to halt the Disciplinary Hearing, you can find the petition and the Supreme Court's denial here.