@quasimado
Honestly, I don't want to hear a judge say they're honored & privileged to send someone to their death.
I want it to be the hardest part of their job, and something they undertake with equanimity.

Some mixed messages here. Sexual assault is bad! Except if the victim is a criminal, then it's maybe okay?

These are unacceptable comments from a judge, IMO. Prison rape is a systemic problem in this country.

I don't care what she wrote...you had me at Huffington Post.

Nomination approved.

She has a point, here. I was taken aback when I saw those comments to, thinking they might raise issues for Nassar to appeal.

Also this judge needs to drop the idea that she isn't grandstanding for the media. Any judge should be removed from the bench if they say they've signed a defendant's "death warrant".

Yeah this is a really bad look by her .

Yeah, someone really needs to consider the rights of a man that raped over 100 girls.

I don't think any of us care about his rights. However, the statements can open grounds for him to fight the conviction. Thus they shouldn't have been made

Yeah, someone really needs to consider the rights of a man that raped over 100 girls.

She said she'd sentence him to being raped if she could. I don't think that gets into mistrial territory, but it is a bit theatrical.

Based on her comments maybe he gets a new sentencing hearing with a different judge? Who cares.

I'm not a lawyer like Regular Reader, good dolphin, or JLN, but my guess is that since he already was convicted she can say that she wishes he could be given a harsher sentence against the Constitution without it being a mistrial. It doesn't mean she judged him unfairly prior to the conviction.

Still, bad and useless thing to do.

Yes, someone does.

So, you're just going to lean right into being a huge piece of shit? Fuck you.

I'm not a lawyer like Regular Reader, good dolphin, or JLN, but my guess is that since he already was convicted she can say that she wishes he could be given a harsher sentence against the Constitution without it being a mistrial. It doesn't mean she judged him unfairly prior to the conviction.

Still, bad and useless thing to do.

Odd coming from someone that likes to stand on their soapbox



Keep up fighting the good fight for those kiddie rapists, JLN.

So many "board lawyers" here...yet everyone is convinced a conviction can be overturned on a case in which the defendent already "plead". hmmm

Nassar plead, I believe, so the worst that could happen is re-sentencing, whether that would be with the same judge I don't know, but it's probably a good idea for a higher court to take a look at a judge saying they would order a convict raped but for the Constitution.