Mary Ann Murphy

Frighteningly rude and abrasive for no reason. Disrespectful and condescending. Stay away.

Racial prejudice, bias, unprofessional.

She is incompetent. I went in front of her on a default judgment package. I had calculated interest at 10% simple. She began yelling at me in a humiliating way that I was committing fraud on the defendants by inflating the interest, and that it was her intention to stop me. First she wanted me to recalculate the interest her way using her calculator at counsels table. When she figured out that that was impracticable she tried to send me to the jury room like I should be wearing a dunce cap. Finally, she just continued the hearing. So I went back to my office and recalculated the interest as she ordered, and predictably, the interest defendants owed was now more than I originally calculated. I had actually calculated interest originally to give defendants a few dollars break. And this moron judge has the gall me fraudulent? She's a witch.

Worst judge ever. Hands down. She isn’t that smart and gets easily thrown off track. So, she yells at people, interrupts people, and ignores people. Her first inclination is to berate others for her own shortcomings. She is nasty and mean. Once she picks a side, she will undermine the other side and show her bias. She should not be on the bench.

I've been on 5 trials as a juror and have never seen such a mean judge - she verbally berated jurors who were late by a few minutes and made them sit separately; yelled at both attorneys several times in front of jurors, snapped at her own staff multiple times and would not let witness speak more than yes & no answers. Even told her court assistant to remove staples from a document. Wow.... just wow. She needs to retire so as to allow cases an actual fair trial.

Judge Mary Ann Murphy is mercurial, brazen, vindictive, and cruel. If you draw her, exercise your 170.6 immediately. You will never have a fair trial in front of her. I've never been treated with such disrespect and hostility by a judge. She rules as a tyrant from the bench and gets a sick satisfaction from ridiculing counsel on irrelevant minutiae of a case. She was wrong on the law numerous times, but would not let counsel speak to address the court. She admonishes attorneys on the public record to embarrass and shame them. She raised issues sua sponte and expected counsel to argue on a dime. Examples included page-line designations already ruled upon, motions in limine, and Sargon motions. She mused that defense counsel should file a nonsuit before jury selection even began. I now believe she uses her position and tactics to force the parties to settle. My guess is most litigants only last 3-4 days before tapping out. She made semi-racist comments, called millennials uneducated, and chastised the Court Reporter for sneezing in her court room. Do yourself a favor and avoid her at all costs. You've been warned!