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Shit like this is what makes people hate the justice system. I have only had to deal with judges three or four times in my life, all traffic related and i came out of court wanting to put a piece of lead in the back of their heads.




I could (stop flipping me the bird--I could but I won't) tell you a million stories like that. And I'm not that old. One time, an out-of-state attorney that I helped to admit on motion until his client had time to find a member of the state bar found himself facing a complaint from a judge to his own state's bar association. The judge complained that he was being contentious and rude. Why? Because where he was from (Florida), attorneys often addressed the judge as "judge" as well as "Your Honor." This struck this judge as some kind of deliberate insult. The judge said nothing during the hearing. Just quietly noted how many times he addressed him as "judge" and had his clerk file a disciplinary breach.

Another judge hurled a filing across the court because the original was copied on off-white paper.

Judges fall asleep more often than I ever would have believed. It makes no sense, since they can and do interrupt witnesses in the middle of testimony if they want a 15 minute break. One ate potato chips in the middle of testimony and kept chomping so loud that the court reporter kept asking for everything to be repeated. He didn't stop until he finished his Cheetos.

If you want a good justice system, a good start would be to make every attorney that wants to practice eligible to become a public defender by a random draw, rather than the yutzs and unemployable scoundrels who now inhabit the average public defender's office. You get a lottery number, you're assigned a case at the state's expense, just like it is now. It'll never happen though, because 90% of the politicians in this country who could put something like that into practice are lawyers themselves.

Oh, and, uh, I like porn.
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