Two US judge stories that really make you wonder….
First, the Texas judge who declined to keep her courtroom open for an appeal against the death penalty – so the man was killed by the state – and he almost certainly wouldn’t have been had his lawyer’s computer not failed. That’s what you really call random application of the law.
Second, the judge who concluded that a woman being beaten by her husband – in front of a police officer – might have wanted him to do it.
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I think you meant husband.
Much like our own Judge who condemned an inconvenient truth just before it won the Nobel peace prize.
I did – now corrected.
And indeed – although I think it was one of those cases where the media tone rather exaggerated the judge’s. He did still say it should be shown.
I agree with your evident opinion that the Texas judge would have no place on the bench in this country, given her evident attitude. However, it is clear that attitudes to the right to life are different in Texas, which I have no wish to visit.
However, I think you and your correspondent are too hard on the judge in the domestic violence case. If the local statute effectively requires that a complaint is made by the victim, and the victim chose not to appear to substantiate that complaint in court, I do not see the Judge had much choice in the matter.