- I’m just saying, a little makeup and a skirt wouldn’t hurt.
Amid what could be the biggest, grisliest murder trial in Cleveland history, Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold has demonstrated an uncanny gift for making herself the story.
Assigned to the Anthony Sowell murder case, Saffold found herself in hot water over dozens of online comments left at cleveland.com related to proceedings in her courtroom — comments The Plain Dealer traced back to Saffold’s e-mail address.
Earlier this month, the paper exposed Saffold again for her habit of disregarding the law when she’s off the clock: The honorable judge has racked up more than $1,000 in unpaid traffic fines in recent years.
But judicial scholars may recall that Saffold holds a long-standing patent on courtroom crazy, which can be traced at least as far back as 1996. That’s when she used her position to advise one troubled teen to use what God gave her to land a man in a higher tax bracket.
Her advice after the jump.
This article appears in May 12-18, 2010.
Well, I don’t know who’s wackier ……. her or Judge Angela Stokes. Stokes records EVERYTHING in her courtroom. And not when you’re testifying, even towards the back of the room. She’s germophobic. Don’t go to her courtroom with a cough and sneeze. She’ll order you out !!! Living on daddy’s name. So, they’re both wacky, all the citizens of Cuyahoga County and residents of Cleveland have to do is vote them OUT !!!!
we need to vote out these self centered people, and get people who are intested in justice not politics. it’s this kind of nonsense that’s causing this city to go to hell.
She is crazy, she sent me to jail for giggling in her courtroom in the back I wasn’t even on trial I was there in support of someone!! 10days I hope she loses her job!!