Judge Brad Weinreb of San Diego; incompetent halfwit

The state of California presented Brad A. Weinreb with a law license in 1991 after she graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law.

FYI: Darvin has had his significant snout firmly implanted in the public trough for the past thirty (30) years. Apparently, no self-respecting law firm in the greater San Diego area was about to offer him a good paying job.

In one matter, Judge Weinreb was assigned to preside over a first-degree murder case the case involving Anthony Byron Williams. During the pendency of the case, Mr. Williams’s chosen lawyer, Gloria Linden Collins asked to postpone the trial so that she could tend to other trial work she was involved in and get up to speed on the matters’ involving Mr. Williams’ case.

In an example of judicial incompetence, Judge Weinreb denied Ms. Collin’s motion to postpone the trial even though the matter had been pending for over two years.

Subsequently, Mr. Collins successfully appealed Judge Weinreb’s asinine denial to the Court of Appeal. In reversing Weinreb, the Court of Appeal made the following statements.

• “We conclude that the trial court erred in permitting expedience to take precedence over Williams’s right to be represented by counsel of his choice under the circumstances of this case.”
• “Not only is there no evidence that Williams’s motion represented an effort to cause delay, there is undisputed evidence, recounted below, that Williams’s motion to substitute counsel was made soon after the denial of the Marsden motion, as soon as his mother was able to obtain the funds necessary to retain Collins, and reflected a genuine desire on Williams’s part to replace his appointed counsel.”
• “Although the case had been pending for approximately two years, given the seriousness of the charge and the potential sentence of life in prison without parole for Williams, we see nothing that suggests that the case was proceeding at an unduly slow pace, and certainly nothing indicating that any delay in the resolution of the case was attributable to any gamesmanship on Williams’s part or to any improper tactics on the part of his counsel.”

The Court also made the following statement further proving that Judge Weinreb should rightfully be working as a greeter at his local Walmart Supercenter Store.

• “The right to counsel, enshrined in both the federal and state constitutions, guarantees a defendant the right to retain counsel of the defendant’s own choosing.”
• “The California Supreme Court has repeatedly applied this principle in reversing judgments in cases in which a defendant’s right to counsel of choice was unconstitutionally abridged.”
• “These cases make clear that while a criminal defendant’s right to counsel of choice is not absolute, that right may be overridden only under narrow, compelling, and specifically delineated circumstances.”
• “It is also clearly established that a violation of a defendant’s right to counsel of choice is per se reversible.”

Of course, Brad does not much give a damn how many times he is overruled by an Appellate Court since he is well aware that no judge in California has ever been tossed off the bench for being an incompetent boob.

As we speak (ca. April 2021), Brad continues to practice her so-called brand of jurisprudence as a judge for the San Diego County Superior Court in Los Angeles, California.