Hon. Patricia Starr See Rating Details
Superior Court Judge
Superior Court
Maricopa County
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* General Ability as a Trial Judge (1=Not all Able, 10=Extremely Able)
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* Evenhandedness in Criminal Litigation (1=Demonstrates Bias,10=Entirely Evenhanded)
General Inclination Regarding Bail (1=Pro-Defense,10=Pro-Government)
Involvement in Plea Discussions (1=Not at all Involved, 10=Very Involved)
General Inclination in Criminal Cases Pretrial Stage (1=Pro-prosecution,10=Pro-defense)
General Inclination in Criminal Cases Trial Stage (1=Pro-prosecution,10=Pro-defense)
General Inclination in Criminal Cases Sentencing Stage (1=Pro-prosecution,10=Pro-defense)


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* Evenhandedness in Civil Litigation (1=Not at all Evenhanded,10=Entirely Evenhanded)
Involvement in Settlement Discussions (1=Not at all Involved,10=Very Involved)
General Inclination (1=Pro-defendant, 10=Pro-plaintiff)
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Comment #: AZ2875
Rating:Not Rated
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Judge Starr is incompetent and horrible. She has a criminal court background, and has no business judging Family Law cases. Her rulings make no sense, and always seem to have been predetermined when we walk into the courtroom.

She singlehandedly destroyed our family.

Sided with an angry sociopathic narcissist from day one, and took my grandchildren away from their mother and loving grandparents.

Said narcissist has said on numerous occasions that because he has more money, he will drag this case out and take us broke on attorneys. Judge Starr is assisting him in doing just that. Two long years of deafness and cruelty from the bench.

Appeal will be our only hope...if we can afford it.

If your case is assigned to Judge Starr, do whatever is humanly possible to avoid the assignment. Break a leg, have a surgery, call the Fire Department, whatever. You will regret trusting this person with your fate. There is no compassion to be had here.

Criminal Defense Lawyer

Comment #: AZ2843
Rating:1.0
Comments:
Patricia Starr, my son passed away this past Saturday. He was handicap, medically challenged.

First court she didn’t allow me to have time to call my witnesses as my ex took most of the time and as the defendant of course he went first. My witnesses where key as my children spoke to them about what was happening at their fathers house.

I asked for my daughters to be interviewed and pled with her not to schedule it on his week since I had a feeling he will intimidate and coach them against me. What did she do? She scheduled it on his week, what happened? My daughter spoke faul about me, making ridiculous accusations against me, never heard before as they had a opportunity to speak to CPS the multiple times my ex called them to falsely accused me of abuse or and neglect. BUT she didn’t question the truth behind the statements. She assured me the “interviewer” was a professional. BUT the poorly trained interviewer didn’t care to ask back up questions to differentiate coached vs truth.

Well, that moved caused her to take my time away from my kids.

She gave full custody to my ex a criminal, he had a long list of crimes including domestic violence, forgery, shoplifting, using identity of others to name a few.
Somehow she thinks this guy is a good person?

She dismissed my evidence, my ex took medication for his mental condition. I didn’t remember this, but he was prescribed medication after one of his incarcerations for either bipolar and and schizophrenia. The evidence was clear, his name on the pill bottle with the name of medication, she didn’t think it was relevant.

I’ve asked my ex and his doctors to please monitor my sons medication levels as he was on highly sedative medications to help with his seizures. I asked many times to adjust and give less if he saw our son asleep all the time.

My ex from conversations didn’t want to deal with him. Of course he never said it out loud as he wants to be seen as a good person. He became his paid caregiver as well as his girlfriend, sister and illegal immigrant mother. They all wanted a piece of the pie. My son was not taken to their family events, nor participated in my ex activities with the other children.

My ex confided in me his girlfriend breaking up with him as she wasn’t used to caring for a child like him.

She had a 8 year old son that my ex didn’t like so she send him away, per my daughter she cries for him but doesn’t have any money to leave back home with her son.

So many shady facts. But the court doesn’t care about the devils details, they think I’m just angry vs facts.

My son died in fathers care, my daughters told my witnesses and I many times how afraid they are of him. I took evidence of text messages of them saying this, how he was hurt them and that’s why they didn’t want to talk to police.

Now, I have rights to speak to my children and till this day my ex refuses. With the false pretend of protecting them from me. I’m not sure how he threatened them against me. But these mentally sick people don’t have a conscious.

The story is a lot worse.

Judge Starr helped a mentally sick criminal kill my son.

He didn’t last 1 year in dads custody, as my son didn’t have his advocate l, me to protect and monitor his fathers actions.

Now my son mysteriously died, not sick? But somehow his lungs and heart slowed down? No signs of distress?

Justice for #AdrikLReichel

She should’ve done a lot more to help us as a family, like therapy father refused. She doesn’t ask for evidence so my ex just says/does what he wants and she has not stopped him.

Other

Comment #: AZ2756
Rating:1.0
Comments:
Patrica Starr is a joke. And based on the other reviews is to incompetent to do her job. And clearly loves child abuses, doesn’t care enough for the safety and well being of children. A VERY biased judge knows her ruling as soon as she sees you. It’s disgusting how a woman like her is a judge it’s an absolute joke to woman. She should be disbarred and all of her cases should be looked over again. Even having clear evidence and listening to someone literally tell her lies and STILL ruling in an abusers favor is just unjust and disgusting! As a woman I could never be that careless especially when peoples lives are at stake. If you get appointed this judge ask for a new judge immediately. Or deal with having to spend thousands on lawyers and maybe you’ll win your case. [Redacted by Ed.] I don’t even understand how she is still working as a Judge. Especially a family court judge at that. I hope this review saves someone from the unfortunate events of having her as a judge. Maybe more children will be saved.

Court Staff

Comment #: AZ2688
Rating:1.0
Comments:
Judge Starr needs to be investigated. Absolutely abhorrent behavior, racist comments, and shows clear bias. [Redacted by Ed.] like Patricia, is it’s creates a chip on your shoulder and Patricia struggles in this department. She does not care about children, grant’s custody to abusers and narcissist. Several of her orders are overturned by appellate courts because she is unfair and incompetent. Patricia Starr is [Redacted by Ed.] and should resign. She does not like women (if you’re attractive even worse), and gives preferential treatment to white men. She does not even read motions and simply denies everything with no explanation, review her orders. Some question her ability to be a good judge when rarely has she ever made a decision that is of sound mind and reasoning. Look at her twitter account. She is a typical Trump supporter devoid of reasoning and logic and makes questionable comments and statements. She should be removed at once. Do yourself a favor and ask for another judge when you are assigned her. She destroys lives.

Other

Comment #: AZ2576
Rating:1.0
Comments:
dishonorable, she gave a cop no fine no jail who tasered a man's testicles said he lost his job and suffered enough. when she ruled against nurses every time , she never said a word about losing career destroying lives, and not being able to be hired in many depts . in fact no oral arguments , lazy judge , pettifogger , biased .

Criminal Defense Lawyer

Comment #: AZ2504
Rating:1.0
Comments:
Judge Starr is unfair in my opinion. My granddaughter’s rights were temporarily terminated because she disobeyed a parenting plan. The father has temporary custody of their daughter. The mother was never deemed unfit to care for her child. The father began filing motions in the court before the parenting plan even began. He stated that he was unable to visit with the child because she was in another state. At this time, the mother was expecting a baby and asked the father to give her extra time to get their daughter for visitation. The reason that their child was in another state with her great grandparents was because the father has been deemed to be unreliable and the mother needed to know that their child would be stable until the birth of her baby. Since the child has been residing with the father, new evidence has been presented to the court in the form of a motion for temporary custody to the mother which was denied. The child is having contact with a violent registered sex offender whom has not registered in the state of Arizona, as of earlier this week. The father is allegedly giving the child night time gummies, and transporting the child without a valid driver’s license. Judge Starr feels that it is fine to continue with the trial, that is in two weeks, and not address these concerns. These are horrid conditions and no child should be made to live in this manner. I am appalled, hurt, and have lost faith in the judicial system. This is how so many children fall through the cracks and end up abused or killed. Judge Starr, if you are a mother, how can you sleep at night? Is this a common practice for the state of Arizona? You have been provided with more than enough evidence to remove the child from the father’s care and yet, you have done nothing. It is a known fact that the father has been arrested for domestic violence and the police called on multiple occasions due to physical abuse. Please help me to understand the logic in your decision making. The safety of this child is everyone’s concern. She may be my great granddaughter, but she is like hundreds of others needing safety, stability and love. Shame on you!

Litigant

Comment #: AZ2072
Rating:1.0
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In cases I have seen that were appeals from the Board of Nursing, Starr refused to allow oral arguments with pro per respondents . She also rules it is ok for judges in the original case to switch out (AFTER closing arguments) and sign other judges cases , allowing judges to sign a presiding judges case. VERY POOR JUDGEMENT ON HER PART !!

Other

Comment #: AZ1879
Rating:1.0
Comments:
a real POS, denies oral arguments for pro per, she is LAZY , might have to explain a rule. watched other cases with attorney's Elizabeth Campbell was horrible , not ever mediocre, K Kent was organized and knew her stuff but the case was rigged, verdict in before it started . and starr's grandmother was a nurse, wonder what she this of this mess of a grd dtr !!

Civil Litigation - Govt.

Comment #: AZ1498
Rating:1.0
Comments:
biased for the state. Not acting as a "judge " but playing interference for the state always siding with the state attorneys. Unprofessional for sure, does not even read the cases but has the decision made up before you get there. She is agreeing with the state agency every time. The agency , filing charges in areas that are not their concern , but Starr upholds it for them , sad she is , very sad, it will come back to her. taking away another womans career with no thought about it , is an evil and wicked act .