So last night while I was trying to recover from the heartbreaking loss of the Cowboys to the Eagles, I was watching Fox 4 News and saw my good friend Carlos Cortez on the news facing assault charges. In almost any other case, I would have felt some sort of sympathy for a member of our justice system to be facing such charges but in this case I did not.
In 2007, as I was fighting my landmark case, Judge Cortez Presided over the 44th District Court and originally had set a trial date for March 12th, 2007. March 2nd, 2007 he called a hearing between my Attorneys and the Attorneys for Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Scott Yung LLC- I mentioned their name for a reason, keep reading) stating that he needed more time to evaluate the case and delayed the trial being started until August 20th, 2007. Low and behold, after the hearing, he overturned a previous decision by Judge Kent Sims who was a visiting judge to not grant a trial without a jury at a previous hearing on February 26, 2007.
With this decision made, my case never went to trial.
In 2009, I found out that Judge Cortez was given $5,000 toward his campaign on February 26th, 2007. I found this to be MORE than coincidental for 3 reasons:
1. Why would a judge accept money from a set of counselors who have a trial approaching in his court and not report this during the hearing to both sides?
2. Why February 26th, 2007? Exactly 14 days before my trial was to start? The EXACT same day of my hearing with Judge Kent?
3. Why would donate to Cortez' campaign now although he was just elected the previous November and the terms for District Court Judges are 4 years long?
Here's the proof!
Please see the video below in which I explain the specifics of what happened:
https://www.facebook.com/judge.cortez?fref=ts
http://www.dallascounty.org/department/courts/civildistrictcourts/44th/bio.php
Feel free to leave comments and let me know what you think!
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