Is it a Two Fer / Banales / Celis financial connection? And we all know Banales was,,,,,, either he had to have been set up for a quick photo op with “The Lord High Steward of the Household” (J A Canales), the Lord High Steward’s Household Engineer (Mrs J A Canales) of the exclusive Las Donas De La Corte GANG or it take an Armstrong to get er done or as Two Fer would say Finish him. So we are up the ladder; where to next? Who is next? This is the fight for the positioning, it is sport and prowess of honorable legal jousting, A “made living” earned the hard way. Envy, bad sportsmanship, sore losers who cannot prevail without turning to cheating or targeting (one who has conquered or prevailed against a Goliath) for black balling, harassing, assaulting, and menacing etc by various agencies controlled by purse strings and mammonial consultants lactating with Defense Contracts going to some of our own city and port and NAS CC & Ingleside. It is the jockeying for prestigious appointments, the appointments of “close personal friends” to positions of proximity and power. There are several pictures that come to mind. But for now, I think we should all agree; they need a good tasering till they soil themselves.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
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Definitely Past His Curfew? The Judge appears to be caught in the headlights?
CORPUS CHRISTI - District Attorney Carlos Valdez has filed a motion asking that Judge Manuel Banales be removed from the Mauricio Celis case.
Mauricio Celis was convicted in February 14 counts of falsely claiming to be a lawyer.
The judge in that case, Mark Luitjen, decided on a one-year jail sentence and a $1.35 million fine.
However, Judge Luitjen was removed from the case before the sentence became official. The judge was removed on a defense motion.
Judge Banales took over the case and sentenced Celis to 10 years probation with no jail time. Banales also assigned Judge Richard Terrell out of Alice to handle the cases still pending against Celis. Banales left himself as the judge of record in the first Celis case.
A total of five judges have now handled the Celis case.
The motion filed by the District Attorney raises concerns over what Valdez said are conflicts of interest between Celis and Judge Banales.
In a picture on from the Caller Times, standing side-by-side are Judge Banales, his wife Peggy, Tony Canales and his wife Yolanda at a reception.
Canales represented Celis in his first trial.
According to court documents filed by Carlos Valdez, Judge Banales has had long-standing financial and other relationships, not only with Celis' trial counsel, but also various lawyers and law firms whose conduct is directly at issue in the criminal cases.
According to court documents signed by Valdez, the attorneys and law firms would benefit if Judge Banales were to consider granting new trials in cases in which Celis has been convicted.
In May, Judge Banales granted a request from Celis to remove Judge Luitjen from his first trial, and bring himself to the trial.
According to court documents, Judge Banales stated, I will assign myself the case for "the purpose of the rendition of judgement." Whether I continue after that, "I will determine later on."
According to court documents, in 1993, Judge Banales unsuccessfully sought the appointment to a federal district judge position in Corpus Christi.
Recommendations for appointments are made through a judicial selection committee and Celis' Attorney Tony Canales has been appointed to the committee.
The documents state that a federal judge vacancy will occur in the Corpus Christi Division in the near future.
Judge Banales has two options: to recuse himself from participating in the disputed cases or to refer the District Attorney's complaint to the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court to make a decision.
Court staff said Judge Banales hasn't had a chance to read the motion to recuse himself from the Celis case.
You can read Carlos Valdez's motion to recuse Judge Banales here (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format, 7MB).
Online Reporter: Thomas Piland