A judge is overturned because he pressured a Defendant to accept a plea bargain:
Brown’s “histrionic monologues” warning of the consequences of going to trial, not only for the defendant but for the victims, “were not the stuff of mediation or facilitation,” [the appellate judge] explained. “They were the stuff of advocacy.”
Hmmm . . . most judges I know would have just let the guy go to trial. Of course, in Virginia our juries sentence and they usually come in much, much highr than the judge in this kind of case.
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