[APBaer]

"Why in hell is this judge so adamant about getting this guy off? Lemme guess. A terrorist-hugging Clinton appointee."

It might be that she is following Plato's injunction to "Know thyself."

If so, she knows that as a magistrate judge, and now as a District Court Judge, she has a horrible reversal record.
Therefore, she might want to go very slowly, or she will end up doing it twice, ( or if jeopardy attaches) might inadvertently set him free.

[nycbiggie1]

i beleive if he pleads quilty, there is no trial - we NEED a trial in order to bring out the information he knows about the alquaeda network.