“Most of the Kearny Mesa facility is staffed with court commissioners, who lack the prestige of a judge and are paid $152,000 a year.”
Commissioners are appointed because the judges are too overwhelmed. Judges have to approve their decisions, however, Commissioners still make the decisions at the trial level and get just as much respect. prestige? what a nonsensical term in this context.
in Kreep’s case, he sounds like he was not exactly impartial and exhibited his Public Defender bias too keenly. Still, traffic court is not for the faint of heart, a pro se litigant is capable of causing a lot more trouble than a represented litigant whose attorney knows the drill. And the variety of cases and litigants is pretty broad. It can be a lot more work than a higher level. On the higher levels, some judges don’t even take the bench, their clerks do everything on some dockets. It looks to be an incredibly boring and taxing job to me, we are lucky anyone wants to do it.
Kreep was NEVER a public defender. Far from it. He was President of United States Justice Foundation, a very right wing group, for decades, fighting battles on abortion, homosexual indoctrination, taxes, and more recently the Obama birth certificate issue.