Extremely rude, disrespectful and biased when dealing with defendants particularly in criminal cases.
Extremely rude, disrespectful and biased when dealing with defendants particularly in criminal cases. I have had the misfortune of dealing with her in a case in which I was arraigned without arrest on misdemeanor charges without a probable cause hearing for drug possession as a result of a search warrant that was executed at my home due to someone that I was renting a room to. I have video of the police barging into my home without announcement, forcibly entering by shoving the door open when I answered. Judge Mccarthy placed me on pretrial conditions of release over the objections of my defense attorney, and without taking into consideration the fact that I have never been arrested in my life, have previously worked as a federally cleared IT contractor, and that no drugs were physically in my possession when the police searched my home. Several of the officers involved have history of civil rights/misconduct cases, and in my case, officers did not turn over a multitude of information to the prosecution, which Judge Mccarthy repeatedly failed to acknowledge as she seemingly was only concerned with moving towards trial. She outright laughed at us in the court room on one occasion. At one point, after my 3rd attorney failed to assert my rights in regards to the due process issues and concerns regarding discovery compliance by the police, I chose to represent myself, at which point Judge Mccarthy became derisive, making comments about how it was her decision whether or not I could represent myself, and then when I stated that I had a right to do so, asked me if I was trained as a lawyer. I responded by saying that I was not trained as a lawyer but that I was educated and knew my rights, to which Judge Mccarthy responded by saying that she then understood why 3 lawyers had withdrawn from my case.