THE ROBING ROOM

I spent an entire morning in Judge Anderson's courtroom yesterday at a sentencing hearing for my client and watched four sentencing hearings before mine. Despite his terrible reputation, I watched him depart below the guidelines on one case, agree with the defense that a guideline enhancement does not apply on another case, and split the difference on two others. On mine he gave the low-end of the guidline range. He also went below three years of supervised release a couple cases, including mine. So for as much grousing there is about Judge Anderson, on this day anyway, I've certainly seen much worse. But then as I was leaving, a couple civil litigants had their case called. That's when I heard the yelling from the bench...oh geez.