Thank you Tom. Nice to hear that at least one judge in Phoenix is not willing to rubber stamp approve of how the police are operating.
A local judge here responded to me when I inquired about the gold fringe flag in his court room. Rather than take the time to actually find out he did a quick Google search and then copied and pasted 4 paragraphs from the site into a word document , printed it out on court letter head, hand signed it and mailed it to me. Never once mentioning that he lifted the text off of copyrighted private website. I recognized it right away seeing that I done a whole bunch research prior to sending him the inquiry.
When I got that letter in the mail from him I promptly fired off an email reminding him that copy and pasting copyrighted material is theft, and punishable in a court of law. I never heard another word from that bastard but I guarantee you that if I ever have to go before him in that court he will be reminded of that indiscretion of his. His court is the local JP court where traffic tickets are tried, and I've actually been trying to acquire a traffic ticket lately just so I can have an appointment with that court.
That should be real fun when that happens!
Ahahahaha. To quote John Prine "Sweet revenge, sweet revenge will prevail, without fail."
There were at least two judges involved, and 14 lawyers in common. The lawyer that spoke up was 'duly outraged'.
Are you sure about that lawyer who spoke up? To be 'duly outraged' that would be saying he was required to be outraged, or proper to be outraged.
Quite possibly he was "dually outraged" which would mean he was outraged on two sides. Side one being that the cops acted in such a behavior and side two that the judge dropped the charges meaning he loses a bunch of revenue opportunity.
My guess is that he 'dually outraged', but just my guess.