Can an Attempted Murderer ‘Preside’ over a Restraining Order against Her Own Accomplice?

Bandy X. Lee
8 min readFeb 15, 2025

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Jane Gallina-Mecca’s Gall Never Ends, but Her End is Coming

“Judge” Jane Gallina-Mecca is no ordinary attempted murderer; she is a documented serial murderer, who has facilitated the brutal murders of multiple domestic violence victims whose children she also destroyed. Yet, she knows that no criminal charges can be brought against her, as long as she operates under a guise of “judicial immunity.” Of course, immunity is not supposed to cover criminal deeds, but she has honed her “skills” of squeezing in all manner of felony crimes and acts of brutality under her “judicial” canopy and burying them under “legalese” — after all, this is her “profession”! Luckily for her, in the so-called “Family Courts,” where there is total secrecy, no accountability, and unlimited discretion, it does not take genius to do so. Indeed, it is truly ironic that society has set up conditions for the most heinous criminals to congregate as “judges” to preside over (i.e., prey upon) the most vulnerable members of society.

In following the case of my sister, Patricia Lee, I have examined intimately how a “judge” may facilitate the kidnappings, torture, and attempted murders of innocent children and the adults who try to protect them. As a forensic psychiatrist who has studied human violence for twenty-five years, I am no stranger to the behavior of criminals who, when caught in the criminal act, do not correct their behavior but attempt to eliminate witnesses. Currently, Patricia Lee is a witness of Gallina-Mecca’s felony crimes, and thus Gallina-Mecca has reinserted herself to “preside” over a restraining order against her own accomplice. There is great incentive for Gallina-Mecca to eliminate my sister, since, even though Gallina-Mecca has extended her illegal gag order beyond the end of Patricia Lee’s divorce, the revelation of her crimes is only a matter of time.

Gallina-Mecca co-conspired with her violent ex-husband, Alan T. Chan, from the very beginning. The post-separation period is when victims of domestic violence are at the greatest risk of being murdered, and Gallina-Mecca acted in every way as Alan T. Chan’s hired hitwoman. I was present when she authorized a violent police raid, for no reason other than to attempt to murder Patricia Lee, within hours of her reporting to the Court her life-threatening medical emergency. The false excuse for the raid was that Patricia Lee was supposedly “absconding” with her children, but it was the weekend she was specifically assigned to have them by the guardian ad litem and agreed to by Alan T. Chan himself! The police detective instantly dropped the charges against Patricia Lee once the false pretext was exposed, but Gallina-Mecca continued to push her false narrative to keep the mother away from her children, against all evidence, so that Alan T. Chan could actually kidnap and isolate them!

Every outside agent Gallina-Mecca employed turned out to be either criminal or fraudulent: (a) the “children’s therapist” Gallina-Mecca mandated for the children was removed by her licensing board for abusing them; (b) the sole “expert” report Gallina-Mecca honored, by the Center for Evaluation and Counseling, turned out to be by an unlicensed and unqualified “associate counselor”; (c) the school principal Gallina-Mecca used, via secret court orders, to entrap and arrest medical doctors attempting to report child abuse, has been disgraced and demoted; (d) the pediatrician Gallina-Mecca enlisted, to fabricate medical records that the children were doing “glowingly” well under Alan T. Chan, has been criminally indicted; and (e) the “guardian ad litem” Gallina-Mecca relied on, for the illegal transfer of custody to Alan T. Chan, turned out to have lied and perjured in court six hundred (600) documented times — and is under prosecutor review for felony crimes!

Patricia Lee’s latest attempt at an emergency appeal follows, but the fact that no amount of true, life-threatening emergency would ever allow an Appellate Division to hold Chief Judge of Family Court accountable (especially when half the Appellate Court is her cronies), partly reveals how 60,000 children every year are trafficked to their rape, torture, battery, and murder through the Family Courts. Meanwhile, the parents — usually mothers — who try to protect their children are usually the only ones persecuted and prosecuted through judicial abuses, until they actually die.

Application for Permission to File Emergent Motion

What is the nature of the emergency?

[Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca], who has consistently acted in ways that assist my documented violent abuser, [Alan T. Chan], to continue his violence and attempts to murder me, is now insisting on taking over my temporary restraining order (TRO) case against him, so that my protection will be removed. She canceled a TRO against him once before, which resulted in his kidnapping my two (2) children, my suffering eight (8) medically-documented near-death episodes that included one (1) intensive care unit admission, and my currently being paralyzed from the waist down.

What is the irreparable harm, and when do you expect the harm to occur?

The irreparable harm is my imminent death, as numerous treating physicians and medical expert witnesses have attested to. There is extreme incentive, as [Judge Gallina-Mecca] allowed a documented abuser [Alan T. Chan], who nearly killed both his children by head injury, to kidnap them and hold them hostage, in order to claim all marital assets, as well as aim for the house ($1.3 million) and my life insurance ($1 million). This is consistent with [Judge Gallina-Mecca] ordering me to keep my life insurance even after my divorce, while facilitating my “medical” demise, as she has permitted Alan T. Chan to use agents to seize the house over his TRO.

What relief do you seek?

Removal of [Judge Gallina-Mecca] from all proceedings and a change of venue. The Judge is under a Motion to Recuse, a federal lawsuit, a complaint to the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, prosecutor review, and an impeachment petition, in which I participated for the irreparable injuries she has already caused me. I am also in a documentary and in two (2) books about her that are soon to be published. She is simply too conflicted, biased, personally involved, and furious with me to be an impartial arbiter in any proceeding. Her involvement would simply be to carry out her personal vendetta against me.

Have you filed for a stay before the trial court or agency?

Yes. None are ever addressed, no matter how many I file, since the incentive to protect [the innocent] is not there. Only the extreme opposite, or the incentive to harm, because of my daring to demand justice of an unjust court [and to interfere with the Judge’s and Alan T. Chan’s plans for financial profiting through the illegal kidnap of my children].

If you did not immediately seek a stay from the trial court or agency, or if you did not immediately file this application with the Appellate Division after the trial court or agency denied your stay application, explain the reasons for the delay.

This is a new motion, based on new attempts by [Judge Gallina-Mecca] to retain control over all my cases, since her extreme violations and endangerment of lives are certain to leave any reasonable observer aghast. She has kept her misconduct from scrutiny through an illegally-issued Sealing Order, threats and intimidation against my attorneys, retaliation against my witnesses, and replacement of other judges (once, she canceled an already-scheduled judge to force in her crony, who was not even available until last minute; on another occasion, she herself returned from vacation to ensure that no one else would hear my case).

What is the essence of the order, judgment or agency decision?

The decision lays down a predictable path for [Judge Gallina-Mecca] to cancel a temporary restraining order (TRO) against her favored litigant [Alan T. Chan], which was issued by another judge. [Her] decisions are all predetermined to favor Alan T. Chan, no matter how injurious, violent, and murderous he becomes. No amount of proven criminality on his part, or his financial incentives and history of financial fraud — reaching millions of dollars in fines and federal sanctions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — has caused [Judge Gallina-Mecca] to change her mind. She throws temper outbursts when facts and evidence do not match her preferred world view [that favors Alan T. Chan], and expresses visible pleasure at the suffering of domestic violence victims — and apparently, at least six (6) are reported to have been murdered under her watch.

Has any aspect of this matter been presented to or considered by another judge or part of the Appellate Division by emergent application or prior appeal proceedings?

Yes. The Appellate Division has been unresponsive, even rebuking at times of my supposedly “frivolous” filings. Yet, my life continues to be at risk, and the dangers are only escalating. A foremost constitutional scholar has advised that this may be a sign that the New Jersey court system is irredeemably corrupt.

Please give a brief summary of your case.

A Motion to Recuse has been filed, followed by a Notice of Withdrawal requesting all proceedings to be removed from [Judge Gallina-Mecca] until her Motion to Recuse could be heard. Nevertheless, [she] reinserted herself in a new motion as well as a new temporary restraining order (TRO) case, in order to control the outcome and to ensure the protection of a [violent criminal, Alan T. Chan,] she has been shielding from prosecution for the last four-and-a-half (4.5) years. The reason my life is endangered, and I almost died eight (8) medically-documented times under her watch, is because Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca is not presiding over a divorce but using the excuse to grant a violent criminal and financial fraudster everything he desires. What she gave Alan T. Chan is what I deserved: full, sole custody of my children, child support, alimony, and penalties for his litigation fraud. Instead, in order to reverse victim and offender and to reward him with all that I was due, she struck down my pleading for supposedly “contumacious” behavior — namely, seeking justice — and blocked me from access to all court documents, including motions filed against me and secret court orders that were used to suppress evidence and to retaliate against witnesses. All the facts, evidence, and witnesses support my side. Yet, [Judge Gallina-Mecca] negated six (6) reports by highly-qualified medical experts declaring the plaintiff a dangerous psychopath who should not have my children, and ten (10) reports by highly-respected psychiatric experts unanimously stating that I have “excellent mental health” and “exceptional talent in parenting.” [Judge Gallina-Mecca] even suppressed her own appointed guardian ad litem’s report that I am fully mentally competent, in order to push ahead with her committed agenda to railroad me. She accepted six hundred (600) documented lies and perjury by her favored court appointee, Evelyn Nissirios, and over one thousand (1000) documented acts of perjury by [Alan T. Chan], as fact, to strip me of everything, including my life. She was deemed to be mentally unfit by experts, but nothing has been done.

*Please join our effort to impeach Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca. We are now moving ahead with the articles of impeachment, and are collecting affidavits! If you have an affidavit to contribute, please write to: bandy@bandylee.com.

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Bandy X. Lee
Bandy X. Lee

Written by Bandy X. Lee

Forensic psychiatrist, violence expert, president of the World Mental Health Coalition (worldmhc.org), and New York Times bestselling author.

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