Quote Originally Posted by FoxtArt View Post
It should have gone before a jury to decide, but alas, juries do not determine an outcome, judges do, and this one probably thought he "was a nice guy". I've never seen a judge that would read more than about 5 pages of a pleading either, so the judge never looked into anything more than fizz on top of the surface.
He wasn't being a nice guy.

He handed down sanctions for repeated procedural errors by the prosecution, culminating with excluding 12 out of 14 witnesses and other evidence.

When this happened, they decided they didn't have a strong enough case on the remaining evidence so they filed the motion.

It wasn't the judge, it was incompetence in Linda Stanley's office, not following the rules.