Afternoon Briefs: Judge admonished partly for remote hearing impatience; ABA files brief opposing rigid cash bail
Judge admonished for impatience, guilt remark A California judge has been admonished for a “display of impatience and irritation” and a remark about an acquitted defendant’s guilt. Judge Patrick E. Connolly appeared irritated during a remote hearing because defense lawyers could not show him paperwork, according to the California Commission on Judicial Performance. In another instance, he told a defendant after a jury acquittal that he had been given “a gift from God because there’s no question in my mind that you’re guilty of this crime.” (The Los Angeles Times, the California Commission on Judicial Performance’s decision)