Cushy plea deal for Maryland Judge who had defendant tortured in court

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And what about consequences for the people who bought the equipment in the first place?

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What did they do wrong? I think itā€™s clear that the deputy and judge each made mistakes for which there should be consequences.

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Iā€™m serious.

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He seems like a habitual offenderā€¦ maybe itā€™s time to get him off the bench altogether.

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I believe the defense would be ā€œI was only following the orders of Der Kommandantā€¦ā€

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From a news account of the incident:

King said he knew Nalley had been convicted and sanctioned for deflating a tire at the courthouse. The transcript of the exchange between King and Nalley is five pages long; it appears that Nalley ordered King shocked within two or three minutes of encountering him. Early in their exchange, King asked Nalley for his ā€œSuperior Court GA 15 Certified Delegation of Authority Order.ā€ King said he was trying to determine whether Nalley, in light of his tire deflating conviction, was allowed to serve as a judge. ā€œI didnā€™t think he was in good standing to oversee my case,ā€ King said.

But the ā€œSuperior Court GA 15 Certified Delegation of Authority Orderā€ has nothing to with the professionalism (or lack thereof) of the judge. Rather, it is an order that purportedly vests Jurisdictional Authority in a lower federal court-- and as this was a Maryland Court, itā€™s irrelevant.

Itā€™s all explained here, in rather exhausting detail.

At the same time, shock bracelets are intended to prevent escape and violent assault, not violations of courtroom decorum-- or tedious recitation of pseudolaw.

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Thought experiment: if this defendant had kidnapped a judge and tortured him with a Taser, how long a sentence do you think he would have received?

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Depends if the defendant lived or died. If they lives then the judge might receive 5 years, 10 years? If they died then no charges would be laid.

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I donā€™t know about a man per se, sounds like a overgrown sense of entitlement wrapped in a man-child shell.

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They were just doing what they were toldā€¦

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Fortress? I liked it, but the sequel was terrible. :slight_smile:

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