[bwteim]

This judge likes yelling matches.

http://www.cybercase.org/81701.html

"These efforts failed. And in May, gearing up for the retrial, a hearing before Justice Wetzel seemed to produce the same dynamics as at the first trial. In a yelling match with the new defense lawyer, Paul F. Callan, Justice Wetzel threatened to arrest him for contempt."

[ontos-on]

Do you know what happened in the retrial? I recall readingthe initial press reports. I thought the Barbard woman "victim" was protestiong too much and the guy had a pretty strong defense-- But that was only from a press report. This judge seems a real peach. Mis applyin gthe rape shield law the way he did in the first trial shows his head is into politics and not fairness.

I am not surprised he is an authoritarian as well. But you know you should understand that the prosepctive juror was possibly poisining the entire jury pool with his comment.