[wolfpat]

Judge Greer blew it early, and then he had too much pride to reconsider

Was it pride? Or did he have the mistaken idea that he was preserving the integrity of the court? Did he think it a weakness to reverse himself?

[Congressman Billybob]

All judges consider it "weakness" to change their minds. All judges think that any attack on their decision-making is an attack on the justice system, generally.

Consider that judges are lawyers, but more so. To my experience, the only profession that matches the usual arrogance of judges, is that of surgeons. I have highest respect for the minority of judges who are capable of reconsidering their own, prior decisions.

John / Billybob