Judge’s Ruling In Anna Nicole Smith Burial Hearing

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The high-profile battle over the former Playmate’s body has
raged since Smith’s untimely death on February 8. Both her estranged mother,
Virgie Arthur, and Smith’s former attorney, Howard K. Stern, want to handle her
funeral arrangements in different ways — with Arthur wanting to bury Smith in
her home state of Texas, and Stern wanting to bury her in the Bahamas, where he
and Smith resided prior to her death.

I happened to be driving in my car when Judge Larry Seidlin s’s ruling came down in the
Anna Nicole Smith case pending in Florida (I taped the ruling with my portable dictation device, pulled over, found an open wireless network and posted this.  It may be the first posting on the internet).

By
the way, he gave Anna Nicole Smith’s body to the baby’s gaurdian ad litem.
Giving the body to a newborn baby’s attorney is ridiculous. Like the baby has an opinion on the issue.

The Judge was a wacky as they come. The pundits seemed to both like him and hate
him. But they all missed the point. Judges aren’t supposed to be media
magnets. They are not supposed to insert
themselves into the proceeding. They are
supposed to be invisible. The don’t make
law. They apply law. They are supposed to do so neutrally and, to
the degree possible, invisibly.

This Judge cried from the bench and constantly brought the
spotlight onto himself. Our justice
system suffers more from bad judges, than bad plaintiffs or bad lawyers.

Given Anna Nicole’s fight over John Marshall’s remains, I
guess this is just karma. What goes
around comes around.

Just like the OJ trial, media trial’s like this make our justice
system seem a joke. This Judge fed right
into the media circus and became the rignleader. Tears from the bench! Come on….. Listen for yourself and let me know if this Judge doesn’t make your
stomach turn… and turn our justice system on it’s head.

Judge’s Ruling