Los Angeles County California Superior Court Corrupt Judge James Allen Bascue

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Los Angeles Judge James A. Bascue; lifetime porker, criminal

The state of California presented James Allen Bascue with a law license in 1971 after he graduated from the University of California at Davis.

In 1990, former Gov. George Deukmejian was duped into appointing Jimmy as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge. Jimmy wasn’t appointed because he was the most qualified attorney in the Los Angeles area. He received the appointment because he had proven to be a reliable lackey for the local political hacks.

From the time he received his law degree in 1971 through 2007 (36 years), Jimmy had his significant snout firmly implanted in the public trough. Apparently, no self-respecting law firm in the Los Angeles area was about to offer Jimmy a good paying job.

Recently (June 2015), Jimmy was arrested after he fired at officers during a standoff at his Los Angeles townhouse. When officers arrived at Jimmy’s residence, they looked into a window and saw witnessed him sitting on a couch loading two guns. Jimmy failed to respond to the officer and then pointed a gun at his head. He then fired a shot in the direction of the officers. After hearing a second shot, officers called for SWAT backup.

Fortunately for the officers involved, Jimmy was a bad shot.

Jimmy could face charges including assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer. Because Judicial Misfits in are held to a much lower standard of conduct then everyone else, this like will not happen.

All that remains now is to see if the Los Angeles County Prosecutor will actually prosecute Jimmy for his criminal conduct.
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L.A. Superior Court Judge Arrested After Shooting at LAPD Officers

Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Bascue was taken into custody after shooting at officers who responded to a 911 call in the Sawtelle neighborhood of West Los Angeles late Wednesday night, police said.

A superior court judge was taken into custody after allegedly shooting at LAPD officers in West Los Angeles. A superior court judge was taken into custody after allegedly shooting at LAPD officers in West Los Angeles.

Judge James Bascue called 911 from inside a home in the 1900 block of Barrington Avenue (map) at about 11:45 p.m. and reported himself on the property with weapons, according to Detective Joe Rios with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Responding officers saw Judge James Bascue sitting on his couch with two guns on his lap and the TV blaring. When they tried to make contact with Judge James Bascue he loaded the magazines into his guns and put one of them to his head, according to Rios.

Judge James Bascue then fired a shot into the air and then tried to shoot at police, Rios said.

SWAT officers were called to the scene, but a neighbor talked Judge James Bascue into surrendering before they arrived, according to Rios.

Judge James Bascue, 75, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.

Judge James Bascue was booked early Thursday morning and was being held on $100,000 bail, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department inmate records search.
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LA Superior Court Judge Sentenced for Drunkenly Shooting at Police

A former presiding judge who shot at police during a drunken standoff gets probation in addition to “shame and embarrassment.”

A retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge pleaded no contest today to a single count of assault with a firearm for firing a shot at police officers during a standoff at his West Los Angeles home and was sentenced to 500 hours of community service and five years of formal probation.

The case against Judge James Bascue, 75, was being handled in Orange County because all of the judges in Los Angeles County had to recuse themselves. Judge JamesBascue left the Los Angeles Superior Court bench about eight years ago.

The case was prosecuted by the state Attorney General’s Office.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals, who presided over the case, ordered Bascue to continue wearing a bracelet for another year that records if the defendant has had any alcohol or drugs and to get rid of his guns, which he already has done.

If Judge James Bascue fails to complete his community service or violates any terms of his probation he could face up to four years in prison.
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Judge James A. Bascue gets probation for firing at LAPD from West L.A. townhouse

A retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has pleaded no contest to an assault charge for shooting at police responding to his West L.A. townhouse.

James A. Bascue entered the plea Friday in a Santa Ana courtroom. Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals sentenced Bascue, 75, to five years of formal probation and 500 hours of community service, according to court records.

Bascue’s attorney, Richard Hirsch, said his client had consumed both alcohol and Ambien on the night of the shooting. Since his arrest in the early morning hours of June 11, Bascue has undergone treatment for alcoholism, including private counseling, regular Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and a two-day outpatient program, Hirsch said.

Before retiring in 2007, Bascue was a longtime L.A. County judge who also served as the court’s presiding judge from 2001 to 2002. Before his appointment to the bench in 1990, Bascue had worked as an L.A. County gang prosecutor.

But Bascue’s storied career took a dramatic turn last year when he called police about 11:45 p.m. on June 10 to his South Barrington Avenue townhouse and officers found him inside, holding two guns. He loaded the guns’ magazines and pointed a gun at his head, police said.

Officers pleaded with him to drop the weapons.

Police said that Bascue fired two shots, one inside his house and another toward an officer at the window, prompting a standoff with a SWAT team that ended with his arrest.

In August, the state attorney general’s office filed a felony assault charge against the former jurist.

In accepting a deal that kept Bascue out of prison, Goethals said the judge merited credit for his career as a prosecutor and court officer, City News Service reported. Goethals said he took into account letters from Bascue’s former colleagues, and said the news coverage of the case provided “shame and embarrassment,” City News Service reported.

Goethals addressed Bascue as “mister” and said the sentence did not amount to preferential treatment.

“It’s important to me and this community there not be a perception we have a two-tiered system of justice,’’ Goethals told the court.

Bascue’s attorney agreed that the “very unusual” case did not demonstrate preferential treatment. Hirsch said his client had also written a letter to the police officer whom he shot at, apologizing for what occurred. And Hirsch noted that his client called police initially, and there’s evidence that he didn’t even know police were outside his home.
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Judge James Bascue arrested in Sawtelle barricade situation

Judge James A. Bascue claimed he was being held hostage by armed suspects, was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer after a standoff in the Sawtelle neighborhood came to a peaceful end early Thursday, police said.

Judge James Bascue, who left the Los Angeles Superior Court bench eight years ago, was being held on $100,000 bail, said Officer Liliana Preciado, a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman.

Preciado said police were called to a townhouse inside a gated Westside community in the 1900 block of South Barrington Avenue around midnight by the 75-year-old ex-judge, who said he was a hostage. When police arrived and looked through a window of the townhouse, they saw a man later identified as Judge James Bascue sitting on a couch with two guns, Preciado said.

When police tried to make contact with him, he began loading magazines and a gun, Preciado said, adding that a shot was then fired inside the home, and another through the window toward officers. No officers were hurt, she said.

As SWAT officers were called, the suspect contacted a neighbor, who talked him into walking out of the residence.

Retired Los Angeles judge arrested after firing gun in standoff in Sawtelle neighborhood

SAWTELLE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A retired James A. Bascue Los Angeles Superior Court judge was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly fired a weapon at officers during a standoff at his home in the Sawtelle neighborhood.

According to police, Judge James A. Bascue called 911, saying there were armed men inside his home on South Barrington Avenue.

When officers arrived on scene, they saw Judge Bascue sitting on the couch holding two guns. When the officers tried to communicate with him, he allegedly started to load the weapons. Instead of responding to the officers, Judge Bascue apparently pointed a gun at his own head.

Police said they heard a round going off inside the house, and then Judge Bascue fired another through the window at the officers.

SWAT was called in, but Judge Bascue eventually gave up peacefully after talking to a neighbor who persuaded him to surrender.

Los Angeles police said Judge James A. Bascue was given a mental evaluation, but authorities decided against a 72-hour mental-health hold and arrested him instead.

He was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on an officer. His bail was set at $100,000.

Judge James A. Bascue, 75, retired in 2007 when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 67. He was also a Los Angeles deputy district attorney from 1971 to 1990.

He was appointed to the bench in 1990 by then-Gov. George Deukmejian.

Ex-West LA judge pleads not guilty in gun-shooting

The case of Judge James Allen Bascue, 75, accused of firing a gun in his West Los Angeles home during a June 2015 standoff with police, has been moved to Orange County because all the judges in Los Angeles County had to recuse themselves.

SANTA ANA — A retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge pleaded not guilty today to a single count of assault with a firearm for allegedly firing a shot at police officers during a standoff at his West Los Angeles home.

The case against James Bascue, 75, is being handled in Orange County because all of the judges in Los Angeles County had to recuse themselves. Bascue left the Los Angeles Superior Court bench about eight years ago. The case is being prosecuted by the state Attorney General’s Office.

Bascue is due back in court Nov. 13 for a pretrial hearing.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals, who is presiding over the case, ordered Bascue to continue wearing a bracelet that records whether the defendant has had any alcohol. He also said the defendant cannot possess a gun for the time being.

Bascue concurred with Goethals’ rulings.

“I certainly understand that and I agree with the court’s wisdom,” Bascue said.

Bascue’s attorneys, Michael D. Nasatir and Richard Hirsch, said they asked for a delay in the preliminary hearing so they could have time to negotiate a plea deal with prosecutors before then.

“We’re working with the attorney general to try to settle the case if possible,” Hirsch said.

Nasatir said the root cause of the incident was alcohol and that his client has been working on staying sober since his arrest.

“He continues to live a life of sobriety and he’s very committed to it,” Nasatir said.

According to police, Bascue called authorities around 11:45 p.m. June 10 and claimed he was being held hostage. When police arrived and looked through a window of the townhouse in the 1900 block of South Barrington Avenue, they saw Bascue sitting on a couch with two guns.

When officers tried to make contact with him, he began loading magazines and a gun, police said. At one point he pointed a gun at his head. Police said a shot was fired inside the home, and another through the window toward officers. No officers were hurt.

As SWAT officers were being called, the suspect contacted a neighbor, who talked him into walking out of the residence, according to police. No one else was in the residence at the time of the standoff, and no other suspects were found.

His attorney, Richard Hirsch, said during an earlier court hearing that Bascue has been undergoing treatment following his arrest “to deal with some serious issues in his life.”

Bascue retired in June 2007 after reaching the maximum retirement age of 67.

Bascue, who earned his law degree from UC Davis, was a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney from 1971 to 1990, serving as chief deputy from 1983 to 1985 under then-District Attorney Robert Philibosian.

In 1990, Bascue was appointed to the bench by then-Gov. George Deukmejian, and he was elected assistant presiding judge in 1999.

Bascue served as presiding judge from 2001-02, and received the Judicial Council of California’ Jurist of the Year award in 2002.

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1940-2019

Services will be private for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Allen Bascue, who served as presiding judge in 2001 and 2002—years of transition, bewilderment, and tensions, with operations having become those of a mega-court, following the absorption of the county’s 24 municipal courts the previous year.

Judge James A. Bascue retired in 2007 after 17 years on the Superior Court, died in his sleep Wednesday morning following an illness that had stretched over several weeks. He was 79.

His was a life marked by significant heights and, more recently, depths. The heights were accentuated in comments following his death.

Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert A. Dukes—who served as assistant presiding judge under Judge Bascue, and then took the reins as presiding judge for the next two years—remarked:

Judge Bascue was a deputy district attorney from 1971-90, contemporaneously serving as State Bar chief trial counsel from 1987-90. In 1974, during the time that Joseph P. Busch Jr. was district attorney, Dukes went to work for that office as a law clerk (prior to gaining his law degree, being admitted to the State Bar, and himself becoming a prosecutor).

James A. Bascue leaves behind two amazing sons, Connor and Nick

James Connor Bascue is director of financial planning and analysis at an aviation and aerospace company in Oregon and Nick Bascue is president of Quantum Jets, a private jet charter company.

2016 Sentencing
A low point in Bascue’s life came on Jan. 8, 2016, when he was placed on five years of probation after pleading no contest to an assault with a firearm, based on an episode on June 10, 2015. Under the joint effects of alcohol and Ambien—a sleeping pill that can produce confusion and aggressive behavior—he summoned police to his home on a pretext, then twice shot in the direction of, but not at, the officers.

Then-Orange Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals (now a justice of the Fourth District Court of Appeal), in sentencing Disgraced Judge Bascue, spoke of his “unbreakable chain of high level of service” in the justice system and observed that the plea “does not undo” his feats, including steering the Los Angeles Superior Court “through many difficult years” in the aftermath of unification.

Deputy Attorney General Zee Rodriguez said her office took into account Judge Bascue’s “significant contributions to the criminal justice system” in entering into that plea agreement.

Judge Bascue’s attorney, Richard Hirsch, assured Goethals that disgraced JudgeBascue had “taken substantial steps to deal with” his alcoholism.

Based on the conviction, Judge James A Bascue was disbarred on July 26, 2017. He put up no defense.

He and his wife, Jacqueline Conner, then a member of the Los Angeles Superior Court (now a private judge) were divorced in 2001. They had met and were married while both were deputy district attorneys.

“I am grateful to his sons who have stood by him through thick and thin. I owe a debt of gratitude to Richard Hirsch for his compassion and powers of persuasion, and to Judge Thomas Goethals for his judgment, courage and wisdom. I have nothing but love, admiration and praise for his former wife Jacqueline Connor who kept their family firmly connected despite their divorce.

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(Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James A. Bascue, who died Wednesday, was chief deputy district attorney from 1983 until the then-district attorney, Robert H. Philibosian, left office in December, 1984. Philibosian is now of counsel to Sheppard Mullin.)

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