In 20 years of attending hundreds of public court hearings, I have never seen a judge unreasonably ban the media from entering. She did not issue any decision and did not justify why she issued the ban. On the instructions of Judge Jana Bochňáková, the judicial guard blocked access to two journalists - Ivan Smetana from KTV Live and myself. She made us "murderers without a corpse". I am attaching a short audio recording made just before the start of the trial.
In doing so, she unjustifiably violated the right of the public and the media to participate in and control public court proceedings as guaranteed by the Constitution of the Czech Republic. She committed the crime of abuse of power of a public official and abused the judicial guard to cover her numerous illegal practices. The police didn't deal with the situation, they said they had no competence? The police refused to even ask the judge the reason for her violation of the citizen's constitutional rights. She made no mention of the ban during the hearing. It is clear that she is concerned that the media will not continue to expose her demonstrably illegal practices and procedures. There was no reason for the judicial guards to intervene. She was on our side, but she could not have acted except to obey the illegal order of the judge who abused her. In a private conversation, the judicial guard asked me: "What is the name of your website?" She accepted my card. She was undoubtedly aware of the judge's unjustified order and clear illegal actions. At the hearing, she was silent, failed to factually justify and document in writing her unlawful conduct. Another violation of the law.
The judge must bear any criticism from the media, much less a true one. If she is of a different opinion, she can file a lawsuit against the journalists after the fact, not punish them in advance for its possible occurrence. She has thus knowingly abused her statutory powers in the interests of her own protection and her own knowing violation of the law, if we exclude the ability to fail to perform the function due to limited intellectual capacity. She elevated illegality to the status of legality and flagrantly violated the Constitution, including the prohibition against censorship.
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