Off Topic: Shocking New York Times Article

Today's  "most e-mailed article" in the New York Times reports on abuses of law and power in tiny New York village and town courts.  A  shocking must read.

Thankfully, not all town and village courts seem to be that bad.  Nicole Black remembers:

"During my first few years as an Assistant Public Defender, I was assigned to nearly half of the Town and Village Courts in Monroe County and found that, by and large, most Village and Town Court judges were extremely competent, although there were a few exceptions.  And, a law degree was not necessarily indicative of competence on the bench."

Read her full post and her own bad experience in one  court here.