I AM THE FORCE

Excellent email from a reader of Sykes Writes.

"Judge Steven Ebert said he is going to begin limiting testimony to direct and cross examination only, so no more redirect or re-cross examination for now."

Is it me or from the pre-trial motions, to the “I’ve decided this activity was illegal” statements, to this latest pronouncement, doesn’t it seem like Ebert’s got his mind made up and a tee time somewhere, and is just taking a “let’s speed this up declare him guilty and get out of here” attitude to all this? He’s already basically told the defense they can’t have a level playing field in terms of witnesses and relevance of history and precedent with the prosecution. Now he’s limiting how extensive the use of the witnesses he actually does allow can be. It just smacks so bad of a kangaroo court going through a show trial. At this point would it surprise anyone if he was just laying minesweeper on his laptop all day instead of listening to the case?

What a crock.
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