Utah Judicial Conduct Commission: Valerie Bruno

Judge Scott Johansen Dept: Valerie Bruno, of Price in central Utah, said she has filed a formal complaint with the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission against Judge Scott Johansen. Bruno s teenaged daughter and an 11-year-old friend were referred to juvenile court for cutting off the hair of a three-year-old girl with scissors in March and for harassing another girl in Colorado by telephone. The juvenile offenders cut off part of the hair of a three-year-old girl, seen here. KSL TV, according to CBC. Bruno is now expressing regret for not consulting an attorney before taking her daughter into the courtroom and a Utah mother says she felt intimidated in court when a judge told her that he would reduce her 13-year-old daughter's sentence if she chopped off the girl's ponytail in the courtroom an offer the mother says she now wishes she hadn't taken. When the 13-year-old faced Johansen for a hearing in May, he sentenced her to 30 days in detention and 276 hours of community service but he also offered to trim 150 hours of the community service if her mother cut her ponytail in his courtroom. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.