Harrison Bergeron said:
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90sBear said:
quash said:
90sBear said:
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Jack Bauer said:
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Kyle is a white supremacist.
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The Judge is incompetent
The judge has made some missteps but he's well under the Ito Line.
Media has gone well beyond calling him incompetent and has been doing so for a while.
Like I keep saying, I don't watch the news, so I'll just take your word on that.
He's racist because of his phone ringtone, a joke he made about boats being stuck in Long Beach Harbor, and he's made it more difficult for the prosecution than they would like.
He also honored veterans, another no-no.
The no-no was in asking the courtroom to applaud a witness on the stand. The judge knew in advance that the witness was veteran and could have recognized him without asking for applause. I think it crossed the "comment on the weight of the evidence" line.
I have not been watching the trial. I have heard differing accounts of what actually happened. Was he singled out? I had heard someone post that the judge thanked all veterans in the room.
I'm with you that it is a bad look.
The judge certainly thanked all veterans, but at that moment the only one in the room was the guy on the stand.
These things are subjective. I was in a criminal jury trial last week where the state had five witnesses, all officers. In the opening to the panel the judge said to give equal consideration to all witnesses "even law enforcement and priests". That bothered me as it put cops and priests in the same category when no categories at all would have worked just fine. My co-counsel, OTOH, didn't care.
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat