Judge Raymond Cadei of Sacramento; incompetent boob

The state of California provided presented Raymond Michael Cadei with a law license in 1977 after he graduated from the University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law.

FYI: Former Gov. Gray Davis was duped into appointing Marc as a Sacramento County Superior Court judge in 2002. Ray didn’t receive the appointment because he was the most qualified attorney in the greater Sacramento area. He received it because he had proven to be a reliable lackey for the local political hacks.

In one matterRay was assigned to preside over a case involving pastor Roger Otoniel Jimenez and Verity Baptist Church (VBC) regarding the pastor’s claim of free speech under the 12st Amendment regarding the violence carried out against protestors by his employees.

Pastor Jiminez is a dyed-in-the wool bigot and homophobe. In his sermon to his like-minded followers, he praised the slaying of 49 persons in a gay nightclub in Orlando and the wounding of 53 others. He went on to tell his parishioners the following during his sermon.

• “We shouldn’t be mourning the death of 50 sodomites.”
• “The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die.”
• “The tragedy is—I’m kind of upset that he didn’t finish the job.”

Hundreds of persons protested Pastor Jimenez’s disgusting bigoted statements. During the protests, his followers visited physical and verbal abuse on the protesters, causing three of them to file suit against Jiminez and VBC.

In a display of his infinite incompetence and ignorance, Ray laughingly sided with Jiminez and against the protestors by claiming his followers were protected from being sued for their conduct because of their 1^st Amendment free speech rights.

Shortly after Ray’s asinine ruling, the plaintiffs filed an appeal with the local Court of Appeals, which promptly entered an order reversing his dismissal of the lawsuit. In its ruling, the appellate court stated in part as follows.

• “Freedom of expression under the First Amendment includes unpopular and hateful speech.”
• “Freedom of expression, however, does not include the right to use violence to carry out the viewpoint expressed.”
• “We conclude the trial court erred in dismissing the negligence claim against VBC and Jimenez.”
• “Our conclusion rests on the distinction between the right of VBC and Jimenez to engage in free speech and their affirmative duty to adequately supervise their agents and employees.”
• “The record shows agents and employees of VBC and Jimenez engaged in physical violence and intimidation on multiple occasions against plaintiffs.”
• “The freedom of VBC and Jimenez to express their opinions on homosexuality does not relieve them of the duty to supervise their agents and employees to prevent reasonably foreseeable acts of physical violence and intimidation.”
• “The gravamen (substance) of the complaint is not directed to protected activity and should not have been dismissed under the anti-SLAPP statute.”

What kind of Moron (my sincerest apologies to Morons) would rule that physically attacking someone was protected free religious speech?

It goes without saying that Ray the Rummy doesn’t much give a damn when he’s overturned (rebuked in truth) by the appellate court since he is well aware that no California judge has ever been tossed off the bench for being an incompetent boob. In addition, he isn’t concerned with the cost to the taxpayers of having his asinine ruling overturned.

As we speak (ca. August 2020), Ray continues to sit as a Sacramento County Superior Court judge in Los Angeles, California.