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- From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
- Subject: Re: NEXP: Sentence?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.202426.22588@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Summary: What could and could not happen
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- References: <1992Dec21.215903.66244@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <ljemvvINN8ni@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:24:26 GMT
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- In article <ljemvvINN8ni@news.bbn.com>, hefferman@ccs1.bbn.com (Matt Hefferman) writes:
- >
- > There are two parts to the judge's "order":
- >
- > 2) Once condition #1 has been met, the WV authorities can have Chris IF THEY
- > SHOW UP [emphasis hers].
- >
- > My interpretation was that this was sort of an implied threat from the
- > judge that they (or more likely Officer Semanski, on their behalf) should
- > NOT show up when they time comes. My objection to this as a way to "solve"
- > Chris' problem is that it would be totally inconsistent with Semanski's
- > character for her to acquiesce to this, since it has no force of law.
- >
- > I realize that this show often strains the limits of credibility, but with
- > all the gaping plot holes and character inconsistencies of this episode
- > they finally crossed the line between "well, that *could* happen" and NFW.
-
- The implied threat was very clear. It was also not directed at
- the officer, since a three year old warrant would be of no value.
- Although the judge was speaking to her, it was clear that a message
- was being sent back to West VA.
-
- I'm not even sure this "strains the limit of credulity". Judges have
- tremendous leeway in their courts. A sidenote that may illustrate -
- I was always a fan of "Night Court" but found it unlikely that Dan
- Fielding would fawn over the judge so much. Why all that sucking up?
- After all they were both public officials and the prosecutor was not
- dependent on the judge for his pay. Then I read a small article in
- the New York Times (they have a periodic "legal" column) which talked
- about how suddenly, when you become a judge, your clothes are smarter,
- your decisions are brilliant, your jokes are funnier, even your ties
- are hipper. Apparently the sucking up part was taken from life.
-
- In Alaska, where they apparently have ONE judge for the whole region
- and you can't just switch courtrooms to fish for a verdict, the
- judge is practically God! Short of going to the State Supreme court,
- or the Governor, to enforce a years old extradition order against
- a small town DJ - they would have to deal with her. I think they'd
- be glad to drop the whole matter.
-
-
- marc colten
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-