ADA Binger is a pencil-neck idiot with a degree. He’s not only stupid enough, he’s got plenty of arrogance to believe it would work. He’s been riding this judge since day 1. Nothing would surprise me.
Binger is a smarmy punk who looks the part with his “What About Mary” hair flip (which he probably got from a similar source).
Binger is arrogant enough and ideologically driven enough to believe that public opinion was on his side.
Also, it seems to me that this judge has dealt with this idiot prosecutor before.