 Hi, I'm David Cantor with the Law Offices of David Michael Cantor, and welcome to my blog. Today's topic has to do with the recent reprimand of a Chandler police officer, Lieutenant Lucas Hunt, who went before a city court judge, Judge Maria Brewer, and allegedly tried to talk to her about a traffic ticket that a juvenile received. He actually received four citations, but this one was going to cost him his license. Well, this particular juvenile attended Valley Christian High School, and that happens to be the high school where Hunt is an assistant junior varsity coach. And apparently what Hunt did was he went to several people to ask, well, how does a juvenile take care of a ticket? What actually happens? And then he went to the actual judge who is slated to hear the traffic hearing. And when he asked her about several things like what can we do to take care of this and things of that nature, she became very uncomfortable and she filed a complaint within his office. This complaint was upheld by his office. And in fact, the professional standards commander wrote, this incident made Judge Maria Brewer and Officer Scott Williams feel extremely uncomfortable and gave them the impression of impropriety. In essence, when the case did come before Judge Brewer, he had given her enough information that she recognized the juvenile when he appeared and felt compelled to recuse herself and send it to a different judge. Now he says he was asking innocent questions. Look, I'd say that's probably what happens day in and day out in courts. The problem is he went to the actual judge who was hearing the case. This guy's been a cop long enough to know. You don't have an ex parte communication with the judge that's hearing the case. It's the same reason he doesn't go and say, hey, judge, I got to talk to you about this guy who's coming up for trial. He's a really bad guy. And I think you need to convict him. Or, hey, I'm not involved in the case, but other officers are. And I think you need to really check this bad guy out. He would never do that. Yet, when he goes and says, this is a really good guy, and gee, what can you do when he comes before you is completely inappropriate. But that's what I think. Tell me what you think.