Proof and Hearsay

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Jailed mother's kin suing to take on judge
By Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel
March 25, 2010

The sister of a Milwaukee woman jailed more than two years for refusing to reveal the whereabouts of her son in a custody dispute is so upset with case that she wants to run against the judge.

Milwaukee Circuit Judge Thomas Donegan on Monday ordered April Hope Griffin to undergo an inpatient psychological evaluation, after reports that she wouldn't cooperate for a less intensive review ordered earlier. Griffin is charged with interfering with child custody.

Griffin's sister, Ieshuh Griffin, tried to file to run against Donegan this week. Told she couldn't, she has now gone to federal court for a write of quo warranto challenging Donegan's authority to sit as judge.

She says the criteria to run for circuit judge is "unconstitutional and infringes on the right and the will of the people, for the people by the people to form a more perfect Union." The motion runs seven pages and invokes the Clayton Act, the Sherman Act and "all aplicable federal law."

April Griffin first spent time in jail on contempt for refusing to say where her child was being held. A family court judge eventually let her out, and she was arrested on charges of interfering with custody a few months later when police, acting on a tip, discovered the boy with her and removed him.

Ieshuh Griffin also runs a YouTube channel devoted to her sister's case.

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