Breaks my NCDC - educated heart. From CrimProf Blog:
The Neon Sign Reads: REVERSIBLE ERROR
A Michigan lawyer was held in contempt and fined for phrasing his cross examination questions as declarative statements, a perfectly legitimate technique. (See Pozner & Dodd...). Now he's being forced to appeal...
Read on for transcribed judicial gems such as:
THE COURT: It's not acceptable in my courtroom. If you don't like it you can appeal me after I'm done fining you. Is that clear?
This sort of situation is what makes people really not like judges so much. It's a blatant abuse of his power as a judge to make a legitimate legal method not acceptable in his court room. Some judges really have serious quirks that amount to bias.
ReplyDeleteThe thing I really hate is that as a common citizen, it's really hard to find this stuff out before the judge is elected if it's an elected judge and then you are screwed for a long time to come.
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