This judge is a psychopath all too willing to further experiment on the public with this ridiculous ruling.
I live for the day when these judges can be held criminally responsible for insane sentences like this one.
It's time to end the little fiefdoms that these judges create for themselves.
Amen to that.
Another insane sentence from Judge Cashman: "But there's other families out there, and there's other people who could be victimized, and I'm trying to take the long view,” he said. This sentence is insane AND ungrammatical.
Vermont is rife with idiots (all Freepers excluded, of course) and I'm not just saying that because my awful, raging liberal sister-in-law lives there. She's in Burlington, in fact, and has a young daughter. Wonder if she agrees with Cashman that a lengthy prison term “will accomplish nothing but to harden this fellow.”
I don't like head-to-head judicial elections; they are magnets for corruption and too often are bought off by the dirty trial lawyer vermin.
But on the other hand, lifetime sinecures are no solution either, as this case would seem to show.
I like our system here in Arizona: judges are appointed, but must stand unopposed for a retention election every four years. Most of the time, they win with 90%+ of the vote, but every so often we are able to weed out a real bad apple.
-ccm
Judge Cashman also threw out a case against a drunk driver because the police who arrested him were U of Vermont police and the street the driver was driving drunk on was not a campus street. So this is a judge that is playing advocate and looking for technicalitites and loopholes.