Everyone has heard by now about how Judge Rosemarie Aquilina really gave it to that disgusting pedophile and sexual abuser, Larry Nassar. Whoop whoop! Let him have it!
Ugh, as they say in the self-righteous comment section of your personal Facebook news feed. Judge Aquilina’s personal editorial statements stole the show (that’s what we’re talking about isn’t it?), and to me, put the judiciary, professional women, and the justice system in a terrible light. The statements I am specifically horrified by? These:
The letter “tells me you still don’t get it,” Aquilina said, tossing the letter dismissively. “I wouldn’t send my dogs to you, sir,” she added.
I want you to know, as much as it was my honor and privilege to hear the survivors, it is my honor and privilege to sentence you.
And this:
I have just signed your death warrant.
“Our Constitution does not allow for cruel and unusual punishment,” she said. “If it did, I have to say, I might allow what he did to all of these beautiful souls — these young women in their childhood — I would allow someone or many people to do to him what he did to others.”
I certainly agree.
And so do the lawyers over at PowerLine Blog. Paul Mirengoff wrote something similar on their blog today.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/01/performance-justice.php
You can strip out the link if you want to. I just included it to make it easy for you to find the article if you are so inclined.
I wish more judges would speak the truth to these monsters.
They do the rest of us everyday lawyers no favors.
Like the old joke: Some large number of lawyers give the other 1% a bad name.
And yes, it’s all about the feelz. Why I’ve always hated “hate crimes”*: which is actually scarier and more destructive to society? The guy who hates [insert group here] and kills or hurts someone, or the guy who doesn’t hate anyone specifically, but coldly picks out truly random targets to hurt or kill? One feels scarier. But the other one is much more dangerous.
(* Besides equality under the law, that is.)
Did the guy get a fair trial? My lawyer said my judge abused the system but wasn’t interested in an appeal. It was a fixed fee case in traffic court. The lawyer said the case would be dismissed because the charge was written under the wrong code. But the the little Napoleon in a robe sided with the claimant who rear-ended me after a hundred-foot skid on a dry four lane with no other traffic on our side. He said the case would move ahead under the correct code.
What’s worse, grandstanding or choosing the winner? How common is this in lower profile cases?
Did I mention I was driving a big truck at the time and the small, woman-owned company insurance rates were going to hike up the side of a mountain?
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