Cowboys owner and G.M. Jerry Jones continues to be the defendant in a civil lawsuit arising from a claim that Jones forcibly grabbed and kissed a woman during a 2018 postgame celebration. The six-year-old case has been dismissed and reinstated and it still doesn’t have a firm trial date.
Recently, the plaintiff in the case tried to have the presiding judge removed. Another judge ruled against the effort, via the Dallas Morning News.
The lawyer representing the accuser contends that Judge Aiesha Redmond has a bias for Jones. Earlier this week, attorney Thomas Bowers III filed another recusal motion that focuses on a claim that a member of the judge’s staff contacted a social-media commentator to alert her to an upcoming hearing and to offer assistance in connecting her audio/video equipment in court.
Jones’s lawyer applauded the decision to let Judge Redmond remain on the case.
“This recusal motion had no basis in fact or law,” Levi McCathern told the Morning News. “It was another delay tactic in a case that’s been full of them. We’re glad the judge saw through it and hopefully this finally gets the case back on track.”
Usually, it’s the defense that hopes to stall the case for as long as possible, delaying indefinitely the moment the fight plays out in open court. For the party trying to alter the status quo, justice delayed is in most cases justice denied.
In this specific case, the current strategy seems to consist of making every effort possible to replace Judge Redmond with someone that Bowers believes will give the claims a more fair shake, especially since Judge Redmond previously threw the case out before an appeals court reversed the decision. Indeed, the motion that was denied this week argued that Judge Redmond “repeatedly ruled for the defense, treated the two legal teams differently when imposing sanctions and allowed the litigation to drag on for years.”
If Judge Redmond believed then, and believes now, that the case has no business proceeding, it stands to reason that she may be inclined to exercise discretion whenever possible to steer the case toward the outcome that she previously deemed to be the right one.
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