Well, that's not surprising....

[conuly]

Remember that judge who apparently thinks that being a good boy from a good family means you get extra leeway?

In 2003, in another case that made headlines, Judge Troiano was also asked by prosecutors to try a teenager as an adult — a 16-year-old who had body slammed his 7-year-old cousin, killing him.

“We have a healthy 16-year-old doing something like this to a 7-year-old,” the judge said of his decision to have the teenager, Wesley A. Thomas, tried in adult court.

“The excuse of boys being boys does not hold water in this court. We have a 16-year-old who should have known better.”

Those telling lines are buried at the bottom of an article that spends a whole lot of time trying to exonerate this judge. I agree he shouldn't be receiving death threats, nor yet rape threats (though I guess it wouldn't really count unless he was in a shack or alley?), and as I said I'm not a huge fan of trying juveniles in adult court anyway, but his priorities are clearly screwy.

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[heron61]

And of course, I look and find that not only was the teen from a "good family" white, but the one he tried as an adult for killing his cousin was black.

[hudebnik]

That's what I was about to ask....

[dewline]

Uh huh. So this judge is another one of those. May he be removed, swiftly. (Not that it's going to happen, but our desires in this should be known.)

[sabotabby]

I somehow guessed without clicking the article.

[chickenfeet]

I don't suppose that Mr. Thomas was a person of colour by any chance?

[nostalgia]

WHAT A SHOCKER!

[conuly]

Really? Huh, I never would've guessed. I wonder if there's some sort of correlation here.

[conuly]

However did you guess that?

[cloudsinvenice]

Oh god. Sometimes I really hate being right.

[tielan]

Yep, me, too...

[low_delta]

"We have a 16-year-old who should have known better."

Really? Have you ever met a 16-year-old?

[conuly]

And now that I'm reminded of it, I vaguely remember that case too. Weren't the two pretend-wrestling, like on the WWF? Yeah, he should've known better, but at 16 none of them know better. It's some sort of messed-up brain thing.

[zesty_pinto]

"Boys being boys."

This guy's killed someone as a kid.