That's true. Like I said, attorneys should know their judges and this attorney should have known he had a racist judge on his hands. Of course, there is no way anyone could imagine this stupid judge was going to make the family pay with worry when the criminal is still walking the streets.
What makes you think the judge was racist?
Because he said he was offended....Because he asked if the victims were white.....
What difference does race make?
he implied that non blacks get worse treatment because they are not black.
did he? i didn't get that. What did he say that made the implication in your opinion?
He did say he was offended. He also said that would have no bearing on his decision.
The judge brought race into his statements. Which means race was part of his decision. And because the white girl offended him, it obviously had a bearing on the sentence. Probation is an insult to the family and the community.
He may have "said" it had no bearing on his decision. But no one is paying attention to what the judge said. The criticism is for what the judge did.
The criminal terrorized a family in their home. That's a felony. There should have been prison time.
It is because of judges like this people are more and more getting the feeling of powerlessness. And when made to feel that way it resembles being cornered. And when people are cornered they react. They will fight for their survival by any means necessary. The Constitution guarantees us the right to life. And of the cops and judges don't help we have a right to help ourselves. And that may result in more criminals being killed by gunfire in these home invasions. The blame for this rests squarely on judges just like this guy.
Don't you come at me with "why did you shoot that man? You could have gotten away."......No...Not when we have judges who refuse to incarcerate criminals.
Fortunately, we have trial by jury. And if 12 of one's peers are sitting in judgement of a fellow citizen that blew away a home invader, all the defense attorney has to say in his closing statement "suppose it was your home"......All it would take is to send them thinking "yeah, what if it were me"....Not guilty your honor.