That sucks to hear that you went through it, but it in some small way helps to know that someone knows what it is (and yours definitely sounds worse than mine). It's just strange when you think that things are Black and White one day, then a judge says something that dumps a can of gray paint over your head.
But I guess the point I make with judges doing things like this is that it's really just to make a statement. It doesn't do anything, and even if they posted the most heartfelt apology, would anyone believe it? It's just a flexing of muscle on a different level, and sets precedent for similar meaningless punishments in the future.
Precedent is a good principle, but when precedent ends up being, "We've been screwing everyone else, so because we've been violent towards others, we get to be violent towards you and screw you any way we darn well feel like," well, I don't think that appealing to a precedent of violence and oppression is ever justified.
-Renegade
Oh, i didn't mean it that way, or that precedent was even a good principle. I just meant that without precedent (and without being *called* on the precedent, which is stupid) one judge won't overturn another, for fear that they will be on the other side- it's a form of 'professional courtesy'. And I had a copy of the law in court, and the judge outright told me that if I wanted to bring up the letter of the law, that I should have gotten a lawyer. And without one, the law in his court was what he said it was. (And of course, if I had the money for a lawyer, I wouldn't have been in court, so there's that too).
Bah.
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And no, it's not a .NET programming language, but the idea is still applicable (and I've used it before with great results).
