Tsimhoni Case Summary

In the United Supreme Court case Michigan judge Gorcyca abused her power on the bench in Tsimhoni Case. The three children repeatedly stated that her father, Omer Tsimhoni, was an abuser. While on the other hand he claimed his ex-wife was alienating him from his children. After Judge Daniel Ryan heard the case, a retired judge, in June 2016 he found that Judge Gorcya had violated judicial code of conduct by inappropriate conduct in the court room. He also found that she has violated all three children’s due process because even though there was no order for them to spend time with their father she still found them guilty of contempt of court. LT was found in direct civil contempt by Judge Gorcyca who stated, “The court find you in direct contempt. I ordered you to have a healthy relationship with your father….I …show more content…
This was also stated without any further inquiry. There was also no contempt like refusing to speak to his father outside the court’s instant presence would have been considered indirect anyways and not a direct contempt with no order regarding LT for June twenty fourth. Gorcyca’s expression of language in the June twenty third order conveys that LT was not scheduled for any parenting time until July fourteenth. He had only accompanied his mother to court when she brought the two younger siblings but that had been it. Whether the judge correctly understood or employed civil or criminal contempt or whether it was direct or indirect contempt was not relevant to the subject. The point was that Judge Gorcyca improperly used her power and deprived LT from his liberty when she found LT in contempt on June twenty fourth. They had held him custody until the date of July tenth for doing something she had not even ordered LT to do in the June twenty third