Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/08/judge-tells-jury-to-acquit-acc.html
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Or more likely ‘The defendant has dirt on me or my boss that I want to stay hidden’
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An good example of the GOP installed judge pool coming soon to a jurisdiction near you.
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When God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it get my meds checked.
FTFY, your Honor.
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There’s sooo much wrong here, but just to sum up:
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Sex
traffickingwork shouldn’t be a crime at all, unless it’s not consensual. -
“God says” should never be used as a rationale for anything legal binding.
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The judge’s claims of temporary mental impairment seem like a lame excuse and an insult to people who genuinely suffer from mental illness.
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Well, there’s a book in popular circulation that details some pretty heinous shit that god has supposedly done, so I think that cat is already out of the bag.
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While I am suspicious it can very well be true. Was this behavior consistent with the judge’s past behavior? I recommend reading The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery. The author had many signs of frontotemporal dementia due to a brain tumor. Amazingly she made a recovery and was able to provide rare 1st person insight from what it is like to have cognitive problems from a person who recovered from them. Plus her symptoms were in line with the issues she studied and she was not able to recognize her own delusions at the time.
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Dude, I think it is time to step down. Or at least take a leave of absence until your issues clear up.
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Judge: God says she’s innocent.
Jury: Testify!
Judge Hallelujah!
Jury: No, we mean we want to hear God testify regarding her innocence. Under oath.
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Is this that dual loyalty thing I’ve been hearing about?
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Oh okay, then. Carry on judging.
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episodic medical condition referred to as a ‘delirium’ religion
FTFY
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Don’t you think a judge has more useful methods at his disposal? Disallow witnesses or inconvenient questions, give biased instructions to the jury and so on. I think temporary insanity seems like a perfectly reasonable explanation for this behavior that he in a rational moment would have realized couldn’t possibly work.
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Robison provided letters from two medical professionals that Robison’s outburst was caused by a “temporary, episodic medical condition referred to as a ‘delirum.’”
Pretty much sums up the whole of the Bible right there.
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Well, Revelation at the very least.
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So he was speaking in tongues?
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I asked elsewhere, but maybe someone here knows…
How was the witness sworn in?
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We’ll never know, since presumably he thinks English is Heaven’s official language.
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