No More Crazy
NEW VIDEO! Breaking news about the rogue Waller County Judge Robert Kern and his reign as the CRAZY JUDGE.
No More Crazy
“We’ve been battling with this elderly, unelected Waller County visiting judge for more than a year. And no offense amend, but I’ve watched the guy. He’s losing it,” Wayne Dolcefino told the camera.
Robert Kern had repeatedly threatened to arrest me just because I asked him questions outside the Waller County Courthouse.
“I watched you in court today and you still don’t remember a lot of your orders. Why are you keeping secrets from us judge?” Dolcefino said.
He’s had up to four Waller County deputies protecting him, from me.
“I’m going to see my favorite judge,” Dolcefino said.
We’ve had enough. We finally moved to recuse the judge.
“The recusal would be an easy way for Judge Kern to just excuse himself from the matter, right? He declined to do so. He wants to stay in charge of this litigation,” Nick Kacal said.
But a few days later Kern changed his mind, or someone told him to change it.
A hearing was scheduled for late May before the regional administrative judge, Susan Brown, to decide. She’s tough.
I suspect Kern got the message.
“Because he likes me,” Dolcefino said.
“He likes someone in his litigation, that’s for sure,” Kacal said.
And that’s the point of this fight.
It wasn’t just any divorce case. It involved this guy, Jay Sears, the cofounder of the biggest real estate developer in Waller County, NewQuest Properties.
This one development in Katy is worth four hundred million dollars.
“We’ve never cared about the personal details of the Kern divorce. That’s between him and his wife of more than 40 years,” Dolcefino told the camera.
It’s the protection of Sears and NewQuest that is simply wrong, the hiding of records in a state that has an open courts law. The entire court file had been sealed.
You can’t even find the case on the Waller County website.
And when we went to court against Sears to open the records, it was the lawyers from NewQuest Properties, who weren’t part of the case, who were allowed to present an order keeping everything confidential.
And judge Kern signed it, without changing a single word.
“And there was just simply categorical findings, and there’s some privacy interests, so we’re just going to keep everything sealed,” Kacal said.
NewQuest has claimed opening up the divorce files will be catastrophic to their multi-billion dollar company.
“I want to know why. Who else is making money on these big real estate deals? What is NewQuest hiding that would be so catastrophic to a multi-billion dollar company?” Dolcefino told the camera.
Kern admitted he had not reviewed the files, even our motion that I paid a lot of money to lawyers to do.
Under his rulings, we can’t even get a copy of the transcript of that hearing we were involved in.
“That’s ridiculous. It’s also illegal,” Dolcefino told the camera.
Twice the appeals court has accused Kern of abusing his discretion. The judge didn’t listen. We’ve asked them to rule again, that was before Kern announced he was out of the Sears divorce.
But he is still handling the divorce case of Sears’ politically powerful partner Steve Alvis, a huge campaign donor. The co-founder of NewQuest Properties.
“Can you talk to me about why Jay Sears is so special?” Andrea Palacio said.
The Waller County Clerk, Liz Perkle, should have released it. She refused.
She’s elected to be the protector of the public’s records, not a co-conspirator in secrecy.
“So what happens now? Who the heck knows,” Dolcefino told the camera.
Sears and his wife agreed months ago to remove the case from Kern’s court and have a special judge, Jack Marr, decide it all.
Sears has changed his mind, claiming Marr has a conflict of interest. Judge Brown will still have to decide that fight.
And Kern was so cognitively challenged that at the last hearing, he still thought he could decide the divorce.
“Part of our continuing fight will be the allegation that I am not a real journalist. Whatever,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“It’s a red herring meant to distract from the fact that these records at issue need to be made public. Should have been made public long ago,” Kacal said.
“Judge Brown is supposed to hold the hearing in Waller County later this month on other issues in this case, and we’ll be there. But I’ll sure miss the crazy judge,” Dolcefino told the camera.
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