I’ve personally appeared in front of this judge for hundreds of cases.
A judge ordering someone to be tased as punishment (for… what? mild contempt?) is a misdemeanor?
Wait, not even tased
They make people wear shock cuffs? What in the fuck?
I mean these sovereign citizen people are idiots but
Certainly a pre-indictment plea deal. (Bob Bonsib is worth the money.) But to be fair I’d say it’s overcharging to call tasing someone a felony assault, at least under Maryland law. Don’t know shit about federal stuff. There ought to be a felony-level civil rights violation/abuse of power federal crime, if there isn’t. The real shame isn’t felony or misdemeanor, but no jail. Had Nalley sentenced a guy in a second-degree assault who tased someone for no reason, he’d’ve got lit.
The shock cuff is put on people who in the Sheriff’s judgment are “flight risks.” Apparently King had tried to run out of the courtroom at an earlier hearing.
It would honestly be better if the judge guy had just walked up to someone on the street and tased them
Using your position to shock someone who isn’t doing anything worse than annoying you is literally disgusting
But some good may come of this yet! Perhaps someone will place a sternly worded sign the breakroom
A lawyer I know is lobbying hard to get this guy to sign on so he can sue Nalley civilly. God, it would be so good.
King was actually my client for a hot second before he inevitably fired me (sovereign citizen protocol). Got a lot of media phone calls on this one.
Initial response: 61, huh. I’ll see 61 cases on a drug docket in a single day.
Measured response: of course, each of these 61 people is an individual human being, and now 61 individual human being’s lives are incalculably better. That’s a good thing, better than if zero people had been released.
But still, 61 is kind of a joke. The basic misapprehension here is that federal changes to federal criminal law matter much to anyone, when something like 99% of criminal prosecutions happen at the state level. No one in the federal system has a fucking clue what a zoo it is down here, which is proven with every single Supreme Court opinion that comes out, written as it is by a bunch of Ivy League law graduates who worked in white shoe firms and with the US Attorney before becoming judges.
Who is the only justice who has a single idea about the practical application of law in state-level criminal cases? Sotomayor. Who is the only justice who’s ever actually worked in state-level criminal court? I’ll give you three guesses. And she was only a prosecutor, and only for 18 months! But that tiny experience still has given her an entire world’s difference in perspective even from the other liberals on the Court.