You must not have read the full article. This judge was letting her go because he disagreed with the law and didn't want to enforce it.
Well, one crucial lapse in the current justice system is the pathological avoidance of the obvious, and the unwillingness to accept the natural results.
If citizens are instructed to ignore some laws while in the process of applying others, jury nullification becomes a central issue in many if not most cases. It is Constitutional, it is proper and can and will be practiced increasingly with impunity.
Juries can not legally ever be ordered what to decide. But then juries are no longer random groups of peers, either. What a revolting series of developments.