Santa Clara Bar Association Endorses Rosen and Others

[Kate Moser]

The Santa Clara County Bar Association came out today in support of line prosecutor Jeffrey Rosen, who’s running to unseat District Attorney Dolores Carr in the June election.

The bar association supported Carr in the last election.

In a member vote, the bar association announced today, Carr received 128 “not qualified” votes compared with 114 “qualified” votes. Rosen got 209 “qualified” and 37 “not qualified” votes.

The bar association also endorsed the following candidates for the Santa Clara County Superior Court bench (free reg. req.):

• JoAnne McCracken, a deputy district attorney, over Sunnyvale solo Thomas Spielbauer in their quest for an open seat created by the April retirement of Judge John Garibaldi.

• San Jose family law attorney Vanessa Zecher for the seat of Judge Mary Jo Levinger, who plans to retire in the fall. Zecher’s opponent, Santa Clara prosecutor Timothy Pitsker, wasn’t eligible because he isn’t a member of the bar association and didn’t agree to abide by the bar association’s election code of ethics, the press release explains.

• Prosecutor Julia Alloggiamento, who squeaked by her opponent, Robert Camors, of counsel in the Silicon Valley office of Foley & Lardner, for the seat of Judge Gregory Ward. The judge is retiring later this year.

Comments

[Mari-Lynne Earls]

Vanessa Zecher is singlulary unqualified to be a judge. in 2003, she advised me to sign a settlement agreement that violated the terms of a college trust fund after telling family court that the court had no jurisdiction over the trust fund. She will be called to testify in both a civil suit over the trust's fraudulent use for child support in Alameda and a motion to void the settlement in Santa Clara, fraud upon the court and lack of jurisdiction. When both she and opposing counsel and the Trust state that the Trust cannot be used in a child support hearing and then she tells her client to sign and that the judges are 'ill-prepared, ill-tempered, or just plain ill', she shows a total lack of respect for the judiciary and ignores the rights of children and their college trust fund. All documented in her emails and statements to family court; 2002 Earls v Amdahl