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Posted by: 48Weeks

Any thoughts on this scenerio which happened to me? I pulled a guy over for stopping 3/4 of the way past the white stop line (red light) + he had a plate light out. To make a long story short, he fails the SFST miserably. He is arrested and the trial comes up several months later. High priced attorney has me on stand for over 2 hours. I do fine. This was a judge trial, no jury. Judge commends my testimony and then suddenly states that he is finding the defendant NOT GUILTY due to the stop being "weak". This judge is a former "high priced" defense attorney himself. It's all in the past, but I was just curious as to if there was judicial misconduct here. Any thoughts?

Posted by: Delta784

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Originally Posted by 48Weeks

It's all in the past, but I was just curious as to if there was judicial misconduct here. Any thoughts?

Of course there was, but good luck proving it.

High-priced attorney + bench trial = Not Guilty.

Always.

Posted by: pablo

In my 11 years on this job, I have never won a bench trial. Even the DA's joke about how a bench trial is a don deal.

Posted by: j809

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This was a judge trial, no jury.

You should know the fix is in when you get a jury waived trial. Welcome to the real world.

Posted by: EOD1

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Originally Posted by j809

You should know the fix is in when you get a jury waived trial. Welcome to the real world.

I noticed that when i sat through a day of trials in Worcester. My wife-then girlfriend-had jury duty and that was when i wanted to be around her all the time. So i sat there all day watching the court proceedings.

Posted by: ShakeEmDOwn016

Look at it this way, you still got paid!

Cha-Ching....and that poor bastard had to shell out thousands and miss a day of work....blah blah blah.

Posted by: Wolfman

The fix was in. So long as YOU did the right thing, don't lose sleep over it.

Posted by: Dr.Magoo

Bench trial = bag job

Posted by: Piper

sounds like Wareham District...

Posted by: Buford T

Or the hallowed halls of Quincy Dist. and let em go Mo!

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