Vic wrote on September 09, 2008 12:51 AM: Let's talk about who is really suffering right now, all the local doughnut and ice cream stores. Without the judge's business, I'm sure their owners are having trouble paying for their kids private schools.

Sad Summerlin wrote on September 08, 2008 09:36 PM: I am my own man.
I have no agenda with regards to the judge.
I only have what I witness in the paper.
I only have my deductive reasoning.

First - Halverson is a woman out of control.
Second - Downward spiral. Bad Health. Bad job performance
Third - She is verbally abusive as testified in court
Fourth - Public figure under a lot of pressure.
Fifth - Overweight (not that that is a problem, but it is a concern)
Sixth - If her husband really wanted to kill her... there were a lot of ways
Seventh - If she was so obese... how did she call 9-11 WHILE her husband was allegedly beating her? Where was her cart?

Now... too many items have been disclosed by "family friend". Where was her "family friend" and "family" throughout this entire ordeal. Sure the family is here now that she is in the hospital.

People needing attention and in a downward spiral are like drug users who cannot kick the habit. This should be a private matter with little exposure other than Hardcastle assaulted. Domestic Violence alleged.

ALLEGED!!!! PEOPLE IT IS ALLEGED!!!!

Many of you have already convicted...

Instead... we have a 3-ring circus with scooters left in driveways, no official notification that she is in the hospital... speaking through a "family friend" instead of "official hospital spokesman"...

This story will go on for at least another week... to fill someone's habit...

Yes... it is sad IF (IF) BIG IF she was beaten by her husband... and there is NEVER an excuse for domestic violence...

It is time for this woman to go.

huge wrote on September 08, 2008 05:01 PM: Man his arm must have been tired. To get black and blue all over that body it must have taken at least 5 hours. At least she's not on the payroll anymore.... There might be an opening for a Jaba-the-Hut look alike somewhere

tmosley wrote on September 08, 2008 03:50 PM: Survivor; Thank you for clearing that up. Apparently, I have been ineffective in making the same point.

I still would like to believe that most people do understand and we are dealing with a chosen few (under aliases) with another agenda. If so, I suggest those few find another forum as this is a serious issue.

fred wrote on September 08, 2008 03:47 PM: Is the frying pan is OK?

survivor wrote on September 08, 2008 03:23 PM: THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR VIOLENCE EVER!!!NO MATTER WHO IS THE VICTIM!!!SOME OF THESE POSTS MAKE ME SICK!!! IT"S NOT FUNNY TO BE ON THE RECEIVING END OF A FRYING PAN! ENOUGH OF THE JOKES.WOULD HER HUSBAND HAVE BEEN A HERO IF HE MURDERED HER? SHE IS A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC ABUSE!

2zero wrote on September 08, 2008 03:00 PM: Jerry Springer and Dr. Phil are at the hospital to see who gets this one! Only in Vegas...baby!

wildbill wrote on September 08, 2008 02:31 PM: Watch it twinkieboy. Chivalry is not dead. I will always defend a woman's honor.

Red flags everywhere wrote on September 08, 2008 02:26 PM: To: ROBERT

Let me explain. There are employees and neighbors who have stated both parties engaged in verbally abusive behavior towards each other.

There has been testimony and news reports that Mrs. Halverson treated her employees with verbal disrespect and professionally unacceptable requests. That she said demeaning things, up to and including, asking her bailiff "jokingly" to "shoot her husband." There's more Freud than a joke in that statement...it's just pure ugly to go there at all.

Halverson crossed boundaries by sneaking in hired guns, to protect her, at the court house. On that charge alone, she should be summarily shown the door.

When taking in all that's been submitted regarding their personalities and documented behavior, I'd have been pleasantly surprised if their union had beat the odds and was supportive and successful.

It will be interesting to see what role this woman will take once she has recovered from his murder attempt.Will she be a role model and exit the relationship or sign on for the rest of the cruise?

Casting Stones wrote on September 08, 2008 02:09 PM:
Hardcastle Revisited wrote on September 07, 2008 01:14 PM: "just watchin" and came across this. Here is a snippet. Hardcastle made the New York Times 06/01/2004

Kathy Hardcastle, 52, is the inscrutable presence in this family; at once dominant and indulgent, driven
Kathy Hardcastle has drinks with the girls on Saturdays.

At times, the judge (HIS HONOR HARDCASTLE) stands at his door, unsure of what he may find inside. Will there be a nude young man in there? A half-dressed girl? Personal property gone missing? Someone unconscious in the bathroom?

The judge (HIS HONOR HARDCASTLE) can tell you about the horror of standing in the emergency room above his daughter, her painted lips dull red, her skin light blue.

Consider that Whitney brought a runaway boy home last year and the Hardcastles let him stay. Kathy Hardcastle took him in thinking he might be a steadying influence on their daughter.
A boy sleeping in his daughter's bed. One high school credit, unable to carry a conversation, no interest in books, no hobbies. He stays out late and does drugs. I haven't tried heroin yet," he says.

KATHY HARDCASTLE THINKS THIS IS A STEADYING INFLUENCE ON HER DAUGHTER. THIS IS WHY OUR CHIEF JUDGE DOES NOTHING ABOUT DELVECCHIO. KATHY HARDCASTLE THINKS THIS BEHAVIOR IS A "STEADYING INFLUENCE".

His Honor, the man of order and discipline, washes the reprobate's underpants on Saturday afternoons. Kathy Hardcastle says as a matter beyond discussion. And to this end, she bought her husband a new washer and dryer.

The washing gives Judge Hardcastle a modicum of control. "Some colors need warm. Some need cold. Heavy material needs warm, no matter what the label says. Reds bleed. Jeans go in cold." The judge folds them on his pool table.

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