[OldFriend]

If the judge believed that he ought to have had the courage to dismiss the case.

IMO he was merely playing to the monied crowd that plays and pays at the ski resorts in snowy Colorado.

[marajade]

"If the judge believed that he ought to have had the courage to dismiss the case."

He couldn't. The prosecution met the standard of bringing forth a case to trial by state law.

[Strider]

If the judge believed that he ought to have had the courage to dismiss the case.

That's not true. The law does not allow him to look at the evidence from any other perspective that the procecutors.

He had to bind it over. Given a choice he wouldn't have.

[Smogger]

If the judge believed that he ought to have had the courage to dismiss the case.

The judge said the standard was that he was required to view the evidence in "the light most favorable to the prosecution" which is why he said he bound it over.