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Larry wrote:

How much respect do you have for the judges who tried O.J. and
Blake?

Not much, but how are they relevant to this conversation? I'm not real
familiar with the Blake trial, but the dog & pony show that was the OJ
trial was a farce IMHO.

A judge's job is meting out justice, not demanding respect. In any
event, publicly implying the defendant is stupid doesn't enhance
judicial respectability (even if it's true), and could be
characterized as verbal assault, IMO.

Agreed, (to an extent) but like I learned in the Army - if you can't
respect the individual you must at least respect their rank.

Not if they haven't earned the respect to go along with the rank.