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Next day at school the bully tried again. She groin-kicked and rabbit-punched him, putting him flat on the floor.
Her parents got a phone call. "Mrs. X, it's about your daughter. No, she's all right. She beat up the school bully. We really don't know what to say."
No one ever bothered her at that school again.
I suppose I could have done the Gomer Pyle "Citizen's Arrest! Citizens' Arrest!".
he should be charged with Assault and Battery-what if it had been the defender who threw the first punch?
I also wonder about the folks waiting their turns in the courtroom. NOT ONE OF THEM did anything but chat - it certainly sounds like somebody's getting beaten up outside the door and nobody says "Bailiff?" and where was the prosecutor? He has some standing in this situation.
Who, and what, was applauded?
and why does the film end here?
A municipal judge's principle duty has nothing to do with the law these days, they are just black robed tax collectors. All the real law is practiced at the superior and appelet court levels. If that attorney had a problem with that judge, the rules suggest taking your sentence and appealing.
"reassigned" than to piss off a judge.
Welcome to the real world. The judge will walk on this one - by taking it to an area that was known not to have surveillance (rare in a courthouse) there was no separate corroborating witness to the crime. Although the threat itself is prosecutable, if only they had the integrity to uphold the law.
I f*%^ing hate bullies. A bully in a robe...that's rich. Might as well be a priest. Why not put a crown on his head too?
Mariska Hargitay does PSAs for "NoMore", an anti-bullying campaign (also anti-rape, anti-abuse, anti-common-sense, etc)
Mariska Hargitay plays a cop on Law and Order: SVU, who routinely bullies suspects, witnesses, and informants...
I used to routinely beat the hell out of bullies...which is also ironic, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTM2HQ0...
The incident began when the Public Defender (in a rather rare example of one doing his job) refused to waive his client's right to a speedy trial. He properly asked the judge for a ruling. The judge never issued one and instead began attacking the attorney. As noted above: where was the prosecutor? He or she could have spoken up at any time. "We have no objection, Your Honor", would have settled the matter--assuming the judge had indeed issued a ruling, which he did not.
It's impossible to say what the Public Defender was thinking. He may have been trying to defuse the situation, or he may have simply accepted the judge's thrown-down gauntlet (he appears to say "let's go" before he leaves the room). Whatever altercation followed (and I think we can safely safe from the sound that more than words were exchanged) took place in an area where there are no cameras. I do hope both men had photos taken of any bruises or other injuries.
According to at least one television report, the deputies/bailiffs who separated the men "saw nothing". Which I strongly suspect is how this will all go down, as far as any criminal charges are concerned.
That said, the canons of the Florida State Bar Association contain a number of standards for professional conduct and appropriate courtroom behavior. I hope they will be enforced. The Public Defender acted in an unprofessional manner when he left the courtroom while court was in session. The judge did so by acting in abusive behavior, leaving the courtroom without adjourning or recessing, and I strongly suspect by assaulting the Public Defender. Once a judge steps off the bench without following protocol, he is no longer presiding over a courtroom. He is, however, bound by all professional standards which apply to his profession--at all times.
Every defendant in that courtroom should be released or given a change of venue. NONE will get a fair hearing from that judge. Indeed, they may be unable to get a fair hearing anywhere in Florida.
What, indeed, would Judge Narragansett do?
No criminal charges resulted, though the judge was "censured" by the Bar Association and retired not long after. The defendant's family filed a civil rights lawsuit which got quite a bit of ink....and quite suddenly dropped out of sight with no word of any form of resolution. What went on behind the scenes, no one knows.
I would like to think that this sort of conduct is a rare exception to the general rule. But we do not have cameras in courtrooms in Minnesota, so in cases like this....we have only the word of witnesses. Witnesses have a way of suddenly clamming up in this neck of the woods. And people have a way of turning up dead in abandoned mine pits now and then. I'm not saying there is a connection, but it is general knowledge here that at least one fellow who was fished out of a pit was murdered by police. No investigation was ever conducted.