I agree with you. In fact, I'd go further. If I had my way these kinds of misdeeds would result in sanctions against the prosecution, or the judge if involved.

I agree with you. In fact, I'd go further. If I had my way these kinds of misdeeds would result in sanctions against the prosecution, or the judge if involved. But our justice system is deeply protected from any accountability by layers and layers of both practical and legal moats. It is virtually impossible to sanction a judge[0]. It is difficult to even sanction an attorney. The key problem being no working attorney wants to take on either target, because it will ruin their relationships upon which they make a living. The entire system is "don't rock the boat" writ large. A state mints 20k new lawyers a year, and disbars maybe 4, and each of those disbarments are uphill battles. And literally no one cares about this. I absolutely hate the way the system is. But that is how the system is. 0. The only exception I've ever heard of was the recall of the judge in Brock Turner's rape case, and that only happened because of lightening-in-a-bottle once-a-century national attention. Judges have incredible power in the US, and virtually no oversight. Almost all judgeships are corruptly acquired by backroom finagling among lawyers trading favors with each other. Do you think they'll allow something stupid like malfeasance ruin the careful spending of political capital it took to install that judge? Hell no.