Hopefully the guy’s lawyer will be bright enough not to let him go to any trial without a jury of his peers, and a judge will not be free to impose his whims in the matter.
> the guy’s lawyer will be bright enough not to let him go to any trial without a jury of his peers <
Now here’s the interesting thing. Back in 1970 the US Supreme Court ruled that a defendant has the right to a jury trial only if the possible jail sentence is more than six months. Never mind that the Constitution guarantees a jury trial in ALL criminal cases.
So if the DA fears a jury, all he has to do is charge the defendant with a crime carrying a maximum penalty of six months imprisonment. You don’t get a jury even if you ask for one! And some PC judge gets to hear the case.
I can’t fathom being an 11 year old and being shoved by an adult easily 3 times my size, that my gut reaction would be to charge at them...
Seriously you have to be a special kind of stupid, or raised without any sense of reality, to behave that way