Philobiblon

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.