While it pisses me off to no end that judges have the legal authority to punish people who don’t automatically show them respect - after all, they’ve done nothing to earn my respect - I’m also not stupid enough to vent my ire for it when I’m stuck having to actively navigate a system dedicated to stacking the deck against me. Save your opinion for when you’re outside their little fiefdoms. Don’t have to like it; just learn not to fight a battle you can never win.
When you behave like that, you’re not just disrespecting the judge, but the whole legal system they represent. Also, disrupting court proceedings should never be OK.
Do you often call the judge by their first name during session, like the nutjob in the article?
You make it sounds like judges are unpredictable despots that demand people to grovel before them, when in fact there’s a very clear procedure that makes things go smoothly. Break that, you’ll regret it. Action, meet consequence.
While it pisses me off to no end that judges have the legal authority to punish people who don’t automatically show them respect - after all, they’ve done nothing to earn my respect - I’m also not stupid enough to vent my ire for it when I’m stuck having to actively navigate a system dedicated to stacking the deck against me. Save your opinion for when you’re outside their little fiefdoms. Don’t have to like it; just learn not to fight a battle you can never win.
When you behave like that, you’re not just disrespecting the judge, but the whole legal system they represent. Also, disrupting court proceedings should never be OK.
Do you often call the judge by their first name during session, like the nutjob in the article?
You make it sounds like judges are unpredictable despots that demand people to grovel before them, when in fact there’s a very clear procedure that makes things go smoothly. Break that, you’ll regret it. Action, meet consequence.