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So wait, mocking victims is wrong?
A New York municipal judge overseeing a 2004 assault case was apparently unconvinced by the testimony of the assault victim. So while the victim was reading an in-court statement, the judge told the defendant that he didn’t have to listen if he didn’t want to. The judge then mocked the testifying victim, comparing him to a Jon Lovitz Saturday Night Live character (Tommy Flanagan, a member of the Pathological Liars Anonymous, who continuously spat out clear and obvious lies). Unsurprisingly, the judge has now been censured by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
The judge has agreed with the Commission’s description of what took place, accepted the punishment and attended a voluntary educational session. The AP did not report whether the judge, upon receiving notice of the censure, acknowledged that “yeah, that’s the ticket.”
