Ttimothy Birdnow

So Judge Juan Merchan wished Mr. Trump Godspeed, and issued "unconditional dishcarge" which to me sounds suspiciously like what a teenage boy does the first time he gets a teenage girl alone in the back seat of his car. Premature and unproductive to put it mildly.

But to wish him "Godspeed" after what he'd pulled? The hypocrisy is astounding!

New York legal code section 65.20 states:

"When the court imposes a sentence of unconditional discharge, the defendant shall be released with respect to the conviction for which the sentence is imposed without imprisonment, fine or probation supervision. A sentence of unconditional discharge is for all purposes a final judgment of conviction.”

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And that was the entire purpose, to get "convicted felon" attached to Mr. Trump's name for all eternity. Merchan knew he couldn't make any actual punishment stick so he was happy to settle for this just before Trump was inaugurated.

Seems to me the judge was the one who messed his pants with his unconditional discharge. He made it clear there was no there there, nothing Trump had actually done wrong (or else he would have punished the Great Orange Menace).

At the end of the film "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" Father Moore is convicted of criminal neglect for Emily's death by the jury with the recommendation of time served. The judge sentences him "Father Moore, you are guilty - and you are free to go". It was an exhoneration even while he was TECHNICALLY guilty under the law, but the judge and everyone else knew he had no malicious or selfish intent and the conviction merely followed the letter of the law. The spirit demanded Moore be released.

One is tempted to look at Merchan much like the judge in TEOER but that is not the case; Merchan did everything possible to secure a conviction, twisting the law into a pretzel. He broke with all American jurisprudence by telling the jury if they FELT something was illegal to vote to convict without proper definition or legal foundation - the epitome' of a kangaroo court. He refused Trump's defense strategies. He allowed the prosecution to withhold evidence. He allowed multiple violations of jury protocol. And he was seriously compromised; his own daughter worked for Kamala Harris and donated to Biden. He should have recused himself.

Like the teenager who fumbles with his Mentors and in his eagerness winds up with a mess of unconditional discharge all over his tidy whities, the judge, in his eagerness to take out the source of all political misery found himself in premature legal exclamatio. Now he's all revved up with nothing to show for it except a mess.

(BTW on my copy of TThe Exorcism of Emily Rose they speak with a producer of the movie who tells a story about Winston Churchill. During the war the British troops were having trouble with their guns jamming due to cold. They found they could stretch condoms over them aned they would do much better, but the condoms were too small and burned through too quickly. The War Department went to Churchill with a proposal from a condom manufacturer to make giant condoms to cover the whole gun. Churchill approved it on two conditions 1.They had to be stamped "British made" and 2.they had to be stamped "medium size".

Merchan and the rest went up against a guy with Churchill condoms while they were packing extra smalls.

This was nothing but an act of premature unconditional discharge and was about as productive.

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