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Sunday, November 29, 2009

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Because Judge Jacqueline Waymack is seeking another term, her 2005 agreement with the Virginia Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission has become public.  The Commission found improper a comment in a case involving an effort by a mother, who was a stripper, to regain custody from a child’s paternal grandmother.  Refusing to change custody, Waymark commented that one of the liberal male judges upstairs might decide the case differently.

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The commission also found improper a comment by Waymack in a case involving an effort by a mother, who was a stripper, to regain custody from the child’s paternal grandmother. Waymack refused to change custody and commented that the case might be decided differently by “one of our male liberal judges upstairs.”
In her response, Waymack acknowledged that the comment was inappropriate and said she was sorry to have made it. But she said it was in the context of an argument by the mother’s attorney that she found “disingenuous and offensive.” The attorney said stripping was a wholesome activity and it would be better for the child to go to work with her mother than to stay with the grandmother, Waymack said.
Waymack said she believed that the appropriate period of time to avoid hearing cases involving a former law partner was six months, although she subsequently learned that 12 months might have been a more suitable period. Scheduling because of recusals was difficult in the far-flung judicial district that extends from Hopewell to the North Carolina line because it has only two J&DR judges, she said.

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