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Just like all the other judges who initially recognized the issue as legitimate, this judge will do the same; in few days this judge will have a whole new perspective on the issue and declare it lacks merit. Of course Bruno from Chicago will have first visited this judge but that will never be revealed either.

You are right. Bribes and threats can be most pesuasive.

Even a "principled person" would have to do some serious thinking if a large amount of money was offered. A hefty bribe can fix a lot of life's problems....cure ill relatives, send children to college, replace a leaking roof, new cars, paying off debt, etc. The larger the bribe, the harder it would be to refuse.

Verbal threats, of course, could be dismissed. But violent and demonstrative threats...like your car burned, bricks through your windows, children approached, or your dog nailed to your front door, etc., would cause one to seriously stop and think if it was really worth it.

This is how the NSDAP (the Nazi Party) established itself... rule with an iron fisted group of brownshirts "explaining things" to the good townsfolk.

Not sure how I would respond, without actually being put in the situation.