Former Judge Reacts to Mean Comments About Judges

It's unavoidable because sentencing follows sentencing guidelines mate

The sentencing guidelines committee is the root of all evil. Just a collection of old, outdated garbage people

honestly this made me reconsider how I talk about people in positions of authority, didn't think about it like that before

Wait, is this court in the Matrix?

The defendant used respectful language every time they asked a question and even added a thank you at the end...

Looks like they've filtered out everything that would be actionable even without being a judge lol

How dare they to a judge!

The thing is no, that's some serious cutting when they judge harshly just because it happened to them

Because it's up to the judge's mood lol

Whether people agree or not, they do explain: an apology statement isn't 'oh this person is sorry so let's go easy on them.' It's more about showing whether this person has an attitude of compliance with society. (From the perspective of assessing rehabilitation potential) In other words, it's not so much written to the judge but rather to the judicial branch or even the state more broadly

That's useless

Determining sentences is less about how evil this person is and more fundamentally about measuring how much it'll cost to rehabilitate them. If someone shows a cooperative attitude, you figure rehabilitation takes less time. That's the logic anyway. But I get that this reasoning is hard to swallow

So after hearing the explanation, you just realize it's a completely pointless and meaningless thing

Apology statements are honestly pretty meaningless. There are fixed sentences anyway. But if you watch trials, you'll see people who refuse to even write that pointless 'apology statement,' claiming they did nothing wrong. Those people usually get harsher sentences

Victims usually don't get apology statements anyway—it's just judges who do. The irony is the judiciary sees how defendants treat victims, but then counts a written apology to them as a sign of compliance and uses that as grounds for reduced sentences? That's dumb as hell. People don't even reflect, but there are apology statement companies getting paid to write them—looks like a cartel. The escrow system also lets defendants bypass their actual victims with fake escrow deposits as retaliation—basically the judiciary is actively offering a victim-retaliation service treating defendants as customers. In a way, the judiciary has no concept of victim protection and acts like a criminal organization serving the, defendant-customers

If you bring out real hate speech, things get serious

If that came out, the broadcast would be shut down

For real, their face would turn beet red and they'd be spitting foam lol

It's not that AI won't take responsibility, it's that they don't trust it

lmao finally someone said it, judges deal with so much disrespect online and people have no idea what that job actually entails

You don't even get identical sentences for identical crimes—standards keep changing lol

The comments section on the original post must have been BRUTAL, no wonder he needed to make a response video

This is actually really refreshing to watch, didn't expect to feel bad for a judge but here we are 😅