By Emerson Drake
7/6/11
Today in a bail reduction hearing Superior Court Judge Ricardo Cordova exposed his blatant favoritism for a former underling. Former Sheriff's Detective Kari Abbey, who has been charged with eight felonies including second degree murder and manslaughter.
In a bail reduction hearing for Micheal Hoyt, charged with road rage, the apparently biased judge refused to further reduce the bail from the $1 Million dollar bail he set last month. Originally Hoyt's bail was set at $2 Million but Cordova then granted the request to reduce it.
Kari Abbey has remained free on a comparatively lower bail of $300,000 and Abbey used a gun in the commission of the killing.
In a pretrial hearing Cordova acknowledged he had been Kari Abbeys supervisor in the past.
Frank Carson, Michael Hoyt's attorney said "I'm only seeking equity for my client."
From what we see, Judge Cordova apparently thinks his former associate should receive more favorable bail amounts despite her similar if not higher charges.
Judge Cordova, we request you recuse yourself as you should have done when the Kari Abbey case was first assigned to you.
D.A Dave Harris cut a deal an extremely favorable deal with child molester former officer, Chip Huskey and with the help of Judge Cordova appears to be heading in that same direction with former detective Kari Abbey.
As James Abbey said to Rita Elias, just before his daughter Kari Abbey went to her car to get her gun, "bring it on"!
It appears that Judge Cordova believes that "roid rage" killing is a lesser crime than a "road rage" killing.
