To: HiTech RedNeck
That would have been a more reasonable move if the goal was to keep order, rather than to just be punitive.
Who says you can't do both? Besides, she never served a day more for the contempt conviction, anyway. If he really wanted to be punitive, he could have done much better.
473 posted on
04/20/2005 10:49:00 PM PDT by
beezdotcom
(I'm usually either right or wrong...)
To: beezdotcom
Besides, she never served a day more for the contempt conviction, anyway That was not clear until the following day, when she pleaded out, possibly under coercive circumstances.
474 posted on
04/20/2005 10:51:52 PM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
To: beezdotcom
Who says you can't do both? A conservative view is that you take the minimal action required to achieve the result. In that case it would have been to order it stopped with the fiddling.
475 posted on
04/20/2005 10:53:42 PM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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