THE ROBING ROOM

Judge Hilton is the bottom of the judicial barrel. He refuses to give defense counsel a full hearing of issues, he steamrolls through the process. He is not thoughtful or intelligent or in any way curious, he's just doing the job for a paycheck even though he's already in his mid 70s. There were four blatantly reversible errors in the one day trial we had before him - most egregiously, refusing counsel the right to make a record - and he issued summary denials of all pretrial motions without argument. He fell asleep six times in the one-day trial. He has no business on the federal bench.