Judge bans Black Lives Matter clothing from courtroom

[MADem]

36. We got justice. That's all we could hope for. Can't bring back the dead, sadly.

I mentioned upthread that the police/fire-emts who responded and testified (both at preliminary hearings and during the trial) did not come in uniform. They wore nice suits or sports coats, and to a man (they were all men) they chose to stand during their testimony (the judge let people sit/stand as they liked). The only uniforms in the court were the judge in a robe and the baliffs in their police-like suits. The guys who came to transport the guilty party to jail after sentencing also wore some tough looking black uniforms, but by then, the deal was done.

I've spent what seems like an eternity in courtrooms over the last couple of years. I have never seen more delay-delay-obstruct-delay-change dates-change venues-object-blah/blah in my life. The cheesy tactics of the defendant's lawyers (he had a couple of them) cost his family a fortune and probably got him a worse result. The jury spent very little time coming back with a guilty verdict. We probably would have been more forgiving had it not been for the hardball attitude of the defense attorney.