Some judges are crooked. Others are idiots. And some ignore or distort the facts and applicable law to reach results more to their liking than the facts and law, honestly portrayed, would allow.
When appealing from a ruling of an incompetent or dishonest trial judge, appellate lawyers often must wrestle with the extent to which the trial judge’s incompetence or dishonesty should be directly condemned in the brief. Similarly, when an appellate court judge believes that colleagues have reached an incorrect result, the appellate judge must decide the extent to which any separate opinion should condemn the other judges’ stupidity or dishonesty.
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