I understand the compassion here. Not sure of this was some minor speeding or whatever.
But objectively this is not defendable at all. Theres rules and consequences and apparently there have been facts and prove of violation of traffic rules. By throwing that out of the window because this seems to be a good guy based on a brief hearing is not what is expected from any judge.
Comments like this remind me that I'm on reddit, these are speeding tickets not major offenses. He's a 96 year old having to take his son to doctor appointments because his son is unable to take himself. I think it's okay we let some minor things that don't hurt anyone go. Not everything needs to be strict and straight to jail mindset. But someone on reddit has to remind us that what the person is doing should be punished because of "but actually" mindset.
In any country with a reasonably good healthcare system, assistance is available for those who are unable to reach the doctor on their own. Insurance will cover that too.
He was charged with a school zone violation, which means likely the speed limit was reduced during a specific window of time. He likely wasn’t racing around going 80 mph, but rather was going the “regular” speed limit, or just going slightly over the school zone limit. Where I live, school zones are 15 mph while the lights are on.
Considering how many people love to argue that you're "supposed" to go at least 10-15mph above the posted speed limit to "follow the flow of traffic", and how it's actually safer and blah-blah-blah... They just want a justification for their speeding habit.
You'd think US drivers would get a hint from the fact that they're pretty much the only major country where trafic deaths have barely decreased since the year 2000 that their infrastructure and mindset/education towards driving is not very good.
Where I live, highways have different speed limits for cars and trucks, where trucks are significantly slower than cars (between 12-24mph slower), and we seem to be doing just fine
The logic is fine, you can get a speeding ticket going 5 over. I promise going 5 over isn't gonna be the difference of life or death it's all arguing over what ifs I could careless lol. A good judge is a judge that makes judgements based on scenario instead of looking at a book to decide outcome.
Unclear laws are just a way to punish an out group while excusing an in group. Either it’s ok to go 5 mph over the speed limit in a school zone where you could potentially kill a child or it’s against the law in order to reduce the number of children killed by people speeding in school zones. If you want to allow wiggle room for things that are hard to codify into law, then at least reserve it for extremes. I’d be much more understanding if someone was going over the speed limit trying to get to the ER in time before someone bled out or something. This is just an old man seeing someone who looks like him and giving him a pass just because we tend to like people who are similar to us. It’s definitely not praise-worthy or a sign of a good judge. A good judge does everything possible to minimize their bias.
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u/Tripoloski040 Feb 27 '25
I understand the compassion here. Not sure of this was some minor speeding or whatever.
But objectively this is not defendable at all. Theres rules and consequences and apparently there have been facts and prove of violation of traffic rules. By throwing that out of the window because this seems to be a good guy based on a brief hearing is not what is expected from any judge.