Federal Judge Wants to Climb Statue of Liberty Before Sentencing Protester Who Climbed It Last Year

NBC 4 NY ^ | 23 Feb 2019 | Adam Kuperstein reports

[blueplum]

The federal judge sentencing the protester who climbed the Statue of Liberty last year has an unusual request -- he wants to climb it too.

[Ann Archy]

Cool.....NOT! What a DUMBASS judge.....

[jmaroneps37]

Let me guess which party put this simpleton on the bench. Hmmm

[COBOL2Java]

Let me guess which party put this simpleton on the bench. Hmmm

The judge is a Bush appointee so your suspicions are correct.

Uniparty Trump-hater appointee.

[hal ogen]

As I go to sleep each night, I hope that ever more idiocy does not surface tomorrow. I always am wrong. Is it OK to consider a judge a nitwit?

[Pilgrim's Progress]

I say let him climb, and then charge him for the same offense.

[glennaro]

Com’on now! Judges need their “fifteen minutes” too, y’know!

[blueplum]

I’m not sure he’s going to be able to get where she got with a single ladder.

[Ohioan]

There is no uniform form for the reference of cases to Magistrates in different jurisdictions. The basic idea—at least in Ohio Courts—is that they free up judicial time for more serious cases; but often the reason a particular case may be referred to a magistrate, may reflect on a particular Judge’s inclinations, rather than a standardized policy, in a Court of general jurisdiction. Each County will likely have a policy, adopted by the Judges of the referring bench.

[Ohioan]

What I wrote above was referenced to State Courts at the County level, of course. At the Federal level, it would be district by district; but conceptually similar. The general benefit is to free up time in the regular Courts. The show-off aspect in the subject case, of course, makes the whole process something of a joke; but, generally, the benefits would exceed the drawbacks.