Judge Stuart Scott of Santa Clara, CA; lying loser

The state of California presented Stuart Jeremiah Scott with a law license in 1992 after he graduated from Santa Clara University Law School.

Stu has had his significant snout firmly implanted in the public trough for the past 23 years (ca. 1992 to 2015). Apparently no self-respecting law firm in the Santa Clara area was about to offer Stu a good paying job.

In November 2014, Stu succeeded in duping the voters in Santa Clara County into electing  him as a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge.

While working as an Assistant Santa Clara Count DA, Stu prosecuted a murder case involving Paul Zapata who was convicted in 2001.

A unanimous panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Zapata’s conviction due to prosecutorial misconduct practiced by Stu.

The Court of Appeals stated in its reversal that Stu made improper closing rebuttal statements to the jury such as:

• Made “falsified, inflammatory and ethnically charged remarks,” which led to Zapata’s conviction
• “Fabricated ethnically charged epithets delivered in the moments before the jury was sent to deliberate Zapata’s case.”
• “Scott “wove out of whole cloth, with no evidentiary support, a fictional and highly emotional account of the last words (Trigueros) heard Zapata shout as Zapata supposedly shot him.”
• Scott wove together an inaccurate story detailing the final moments of Trigueros’ life by telling the judge that Zapata made several “despicable, inflammatory ethnic slurs” to the victim as he bled out, including “you fucking wetback.”

As punishment for his egregious misconduct and the costs incurred by the state to retry Zapata, Scott was presented with a seat on the Santa Clara County Superior Court

Despite his egregious misconduct, Stu has never been disciplined by the State Bar Court. One can safely assume that the Zapata case wasn’t the only one wherein Stu knowingly and cheerfully violated a defendant’s right to a fair trial.

As we speak (ca. July 2015), Stu continues to sit as a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge in Santa Clara, California.