Comments on: Lenient plea deal for man responsible for the death of Paul Kessler during an anti-Israel demonstration

By: FOAF

FOAF — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:04:56 +0000

AD: “Are you this condescending to everyone you speak to?”

LOL

By: Robert Cosgrove

Robert Cosgrove — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:18:55 +0000

Neo, try Criminal Procedure Rule 12: Pleas and plea agreements

By: Skip

Skip — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:15:08 +0000

With this result it won’t stop anyone to do it again. I feel very sorry for the family of Paul Kessler.

By: Selfy

Selfy — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:07:36 +0000

Jury duty is a civic responsibility. "abuse of/in our judicial system" is not a good reason to forfeit/shirk participation in that system.

By: om

om — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:45:19 +0000

That old judge best not get into an argument with a peer. Justice served cold it would be.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:00:33 +0000

“two old guys had a dispute and an accident happened.”

Reminds me of Ilhan Omar’s “some people did something” in reference to 9/11. It’s the defense attorney so he can say whatever he wants, but evidently the judge swallowed it.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:39:36 +0000

while I am not intimately conversant with California practice, I would be surprised if similar or more liberal procedures did not apply there.
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What you’re describing is not what happened in California.
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Everyone can have an opinion about what a judge “should” be able to do, as some of your commentators have expressed, but what a judge actually can or cannot do is cabined by authority (in this case, the rules).
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Are you this condescending to everyone you speak to?

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:53:05 +0000

This is the Lefts surge I was speaking of. It comes, just like the demise of the Democratic Party. It doesn’t mean they go away, they’ll be back under a different name..

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:39:52 +0000

Hey, only a year for killing an old Jew?
Not bad.
One might say it’s even encouraging!

(Those damn murderous…megaphones. They should be required by law to have printed on them—in HUGE—letters: NOT INTENDED TO BE USED AS A WEAPON! DON’T SWING AT OTHER PEOPLE’S HEADS. Maybe at least THAT will be one positive outcome from this oh-so-unfortunate, sniff, sigh, TRAGEDY…)

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:42:07 +0000

I was once empaneled for a jury that was evidently so scary-looking that every defendant that day pled guilty.