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My favorite war story from ticket-lawyering' is a judge in Wilkinson County who makes offenders write an essay about the dangers of their behavior as part of their sentence. It's pretty effective.

Are younger judges more likely to follow the book?

Old one came up with some pretty interesting solutions.

The worst is a short fuse judge on a bad day. I swear like 15 - 20 years ago a drunk driving arrest got turned into a 99 year sentence. (later greatly reduced, but offend was scared sober).

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Posted by Matlock

Perry, GA

Member since Sep 2011

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Posted on 10/11/17 at 7:24 pm to Cheese Grits

Anecdotally, I'd say younger judges seem less creative in how they operate. I've had some blow up deals only for me to bind them over to State Court and get the same deal I had worked out before. I've had others let me slide with some deals and then go ballistic over something like a shoplifting case.

One in particular I try to avoid, because every case is an opportunity for a lecture. And it never ends and never does any good. He's a great lawyer and person though, just the lecture schtick does nothing.

My adventures in Municipal Court also include being told I was incompetent and unprepared when I got a 18 year old pretrial diversion for possession of alcohol at a local high school. With a prosecutor who hadn't done a pretrial diversion in a couple of years. The Judge almost blew that one up but didn't.

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