> But they prevailed only because the judge had broken his code of conduct in discussing the case with media; You seem to think this was a terrible, terrible a

> But they prevailed only because the judge had broken his code of conduct in discussing the case with media; You seem to think this was a terrible, terrible accident on the part of the judge, rather than just one of the many mechanisms by which the powerful evade laws to protect the weak. That is, a deliberate terrible terrible "mistake".