If the idiot judge is right, he could have ended the trial before sending it to the jury to deliberate, on the same legal basis he now claims he’ll do no matter what the jury decides. However, cannot a Palin appeal claim it was up to the jury to decide if the Pravda On The Hudson journalists acted with malice or not? Sometimes I wish the standards for impeaching judges was broader than it is, as some are just idiots.
Seems to me this judge needs to be given his walking papers.