Wisconsin Judge Suspended for Seven Days After Pulling Out His Glock During Sentencing Hearing [View all]

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Wisconsin Judge Suspended for Seven Days After Pulling Out His Glock During Sentencing Hearing and in Front of High School Students

Auntie TOTALLY misread this headline. The judge pulled out his GLOCK.

Wisconsin Judge Suspended for Seven Days After Pulling Out His Glock During Sentencing Hearing and...
Judge Scott Woldt was first appointed to the bench in 2004 and subsequently elected to six-year terms of office in 2005, 2011 and 2017.
lawandcrime.com
2:32 PM · Jul 17, 2021

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/wisconsin-judge-suspended-for-seven-days-after-pulling-out-his-glock-during-sentencing-hearing-and-in-front-of-high-school-students/

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In June 2015, a cognitively impaired defendant pleaded guilty to a stalking charge in exchange for a burglary charge being dismissed. During the sentencing hearing, one of the victims spoke about how the defendant’s behavior “had undermined the family’s sense of safety in their home, especially in light of the fact that they had two young children,” the supreme court noted in summary.

Woldt sympathized by way of a “rather lengthy soliloquy” about the threat of violence and the necessity of personal protective measures.

Then he drew his Glock.

The judge made the following comments, in relevant part:

I understand the fear of the victims in this case. When I judge people and I make decisions, the people of this county elected me, and when they elected me they elected me and my beliefs, my thoughts, and they reelected me because they agree with my beliefs and my thoughts and my experiences. Just an example is I’ve been trying to get security into this courthouse. There is none. Any one of you could have walked in today with a gun. None of us would ever know. Because I sit here and I – this isn’t the most safest place in the world, I don’t deal with the upper echelon of the community, a lot of people I meet do pretty bad things, I send people to prison – or I should say they send themselves to prison but they think I do – so I have a concern with that. So I have that fear too. So what can I tell you to do with that fear? I have tried the County Board, I have tried everything to get people to do something to keep guns out of this courthouse, and nothing happens, so you know, you got to protect yourself. I can tell you what I do now. This is what I do – (the court holds up a gun.) That I keep up here on the bench just because I want to protect myself. Now, I’m not saying you should do that but if I was in your – if I was in your situation, I’d have it on my side all the time. With today’s laws with the Castle Doctrine, you’re lucky you’re not dead because, if you would have come into my house, I keep my gun with me and you’d be dead, plain and simple, but that’s what makes this so scary.

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