Posted on 06/04/2012 3:20:15 PM PDT by abb
Juries aren’t the panels of bright, aware citizens that they were in yesteryear. Now they are mushroom farms in carefully controlled darkness, or violins that are inert unless skillfully played. So a judge’s taint does carry over to juries today.
It is cryingly grievous cases like this which set the law that operates in more “normal” situations. Don’t think for one second that any career prosecutor would settle for less. It is up to the courts to be level headed, or nobody will be.
No, he is not the only judge in East TN with a sobriety problem, by a long sight.
There is at least one circuit court judge who has had alcohol problems, and most recently an appeals court judge with a pending DUI, but it thus far has not impacted his ability to be a judge, and may never.
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