Slacker judge stories are classic Detroit TV news genre, and Scott Lewis of WXYZ-TV has turned in a tale of a black-robed goldbrick with a twist -- she actually spotted the Channel 7 tail, but didn't change her work hours. She just started parking in a secluded space at the juvenile courthouse.
"She shows up late for work and leaves people waiting in her courtroom for hours," Lewis said. The judge's salary: $140,000 a year.
He continued:
It was a parent who contacted the 7 Action News Investigators asking us to look into the judge’s work schedule. We are not identifying him, because his son still has a case pending before Judge Gibson.
"We had to show up at nine o'clock and then she wouldn't show up until she felt like it, you know, 12:00 to 12:30 in the afternoon," the dad said.
He told us that his son had to go before Gibson after a scrape with the law and that the judge’s tardiness cost him and others in the courtroom a significant amount of money.
"My attorney, I had to get rid of him because of the cost, I couldn't pay him for three hours to sit there," said the dad.
