Appeals court: judge must guard against bias, not promote it
On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Violent Crimes on Thursday, November 29, 2018. Imagine yourself as a defendant in this hypothetical. You are seated before a judge who suddenly informs you that he wouldn’t want to share a fox hole with you because you would “fold like a cheap suit.” The court then follows up that utterance with synonyms characterizing you as “lazy,” “arrogant” and “self-seeking.” He tops off that collective description by stating that you “symbolize everything that’s wrong with the world.” After hearing that assessment of your attributes and character, might you have just a …