Judge use to be a defence lawyer. He wanted to help people with misdemeanors change their life before criminal life crescendos. He became a Judge & took a 50% pay cut. Now that's a real man, making real changes! Perfect example on this case!
@@EricN73158 Yes lawyers but usually states prosecutors, the kind that tries to prove to a judge that people or a company is wrong and should be punished. This guy was a defense lawyer the kind that helps defend peoples rights. Only ~7% of judges were on the defense side. Federal judges ~1%.
@@skajake just think a bit: it's a clean person, ex addict, that just missed an appointment. How would convicting her and make her life way harder do any good to her, her family, her community and even her city community?
@@skajake Just watch some more of his court cases... You will see, he's a just judge, not super lenient.. So if he does this he'll probably has a good motivation to do so.. What OP means is: "We need more judges that haven't forgotten they are human"
Ehhh. He’s a woke looney. He lets people off on stuff they’re objectively guilty of based on his personal feelings. Sure, this is nice and all, but I’d prefer an unbiased judge.
@@italienn "a woke looney". Yeah I'm sure if there were videos of a judge brutalising those who came before him, you'd be singing his praises and calling him 'unbiased'.
It's always a good idea to take what the judge is telling you seriously. If they're telling you not to do something, you really need to think about whether that's really something you want to do.
He clearly had tried to and did NOT want her to plead. She wanted the “easy” way out. She likely hadn’t thought about the cost of insurance being more than the interlock.
He did, but she just wanted to be done with it. Her thinking was that if I plead guilty, I'll just pay the fines of the court and go on with my life. Defense lawyers are not going to continuously tell you "that's a bad decision". It's the defendants choice at the end of the day. If that's what they want, that's what they want. It wasn't until the judge giving her the full perspective and his two cents, did she start to consider her options.
This judge is Great....if more Judges were like him it be a better world ....if the person has proven they can't be trusted he doesn't give them a break...he doesn't rubber-stamp things and don't let people hand the d a a lay up
The Honourable Judge is soooo right. At 59 years of age I was applying for citizenship to another country. The investigations they did were the last 10 years in the country I'm now living in BUT a question on the form was if you have ever lived in another country I must get police certificates from all other countries. Thankfully I have a clean record. You never know where you will be 35+ years down the track or so.
Yep, a lot of countries flat out won't let you in if you have any convictions. There's people who can only be with their spouse in the area between the US and Canada because they're both banned from one of the countries. And for visas, potentially health conditions can also screw that up as well.
Amazed at the number of comments criticising the lawyer for not pointing all this out........ Perhaps he did and she just thought it's fine, I'll do time then I'm out.... job done, but it took hearing it all from a judge to make it sink in.
To be honest, given that she was still on the fence the second time she was in front of him a little while later tells me that even the judge being crystal clear - effectively telling her that "you would be an idiot to plead guilty to this" - didn't entirely get through to her.
@@petertraveller6421 “She wasn’t very bright?!?” How about she wasn’t educated in the ins & outs of legal proceedings that elite kids learn from their upscale parents weaseling themselves out of consequences! I have a BSN in nursing & was a Certified NP for two + decades, so not exactly stupid. But I wouldn’t have known most of what the judge was telling her about long term consequences! Shame on you!
PDs sell plea bargains to defendants regardless of guilt or innocence. They ain't trying to go to a full court trial because that costs time and time is money.
I was shocked that the young lady still seemed to be contemplating pleading guilty after the judge mentioned the likely financial repercussions of that choice.
A lot of people trust friends and family and pressure and fear over thinking logically and for themselves. Very often they will turn a blind eye to a helping hand even if it ruins them
Judge Fleisher is literally the BEST judge in the world. I wish we could could copy and paste him into every court in America. The USA would be a much better place!
the heart and love this man has for his community and the people and wanting to see them doing great moving forward is amazing. he tries to empower the people that stand before him is beautiful.
Hmm would you say that if this woman had committed that same criminal act and killed or injured one of your friends or family with her drink/drug driving? I don't think you would be praising him for his community spirit then would you? or let's just assume we are not 2 years down the road from now and she returns to the road having finished her programme and not faced any consequences of her drink/drug driving and now two years on she crashes into your friends or family members car and injuries or kills them, would you be praising Judge Fleischer's actions with this women to see her 'helped' and doing his bit for community. I doubt very much that you would think his actions would be "amazing" then. She is a serious danger to society; she deserves to be given the harshest punishment possible. not given a chance to walk away without any blemish or record on her file of her actions and potential danger she posed to society, it is only by the grace of God that she has not killed someone. It is not through her skill or the legal system that nobody was harmed. This is why you have such a problem in the US with DWI/DUI because you do not have a severe enough punishment that deters this criminality. In the UK you can face jail time for DWI, loss of your driving privileges for years and sky rocketing insurance costs for up to a decade after as well as loss of your job, home, all have been lost as a result in the UK. In some cases, you are forced to retake your driver's exam again to get your licence back. So, until the US starts punishing these social pariahs for their criminality, appropriately, they will keep offending. There should be no leniency in the law for risking the lives of innocent third parties, for your own personal desire to drive while drunk/drugged when an uber is a phone call or app tap away.
Evergy judge I've known has had some experience working as a defense attorney. I don't know if that is the case everywhere, but it definitely should be in my opinion. They know the law from all perspectives and that is a very good thing.
@@usaturnuranusJudges tend to have been prosecutors, which makes sense if you think about it. Prosecutors work for the government and have more visibility than defense attorneys. That's not to say that they may not have also worked defense at some time, but a judge without a prosecution background is somewhat uncommon.
This shows the system is broken. Because your tired, because you don't have the money, because you are in a bit of a mess, you take the plea just for it to be over. And you are punished for your whole life. Just stop, you are setting people up to fail.
I love this judge, and everything he said was true- unless you apply it to someone who is wealthy. As we’ve seen countless times, if you have enough money, you can get out of ANYTHING.
If you're wealthy enough, you don't need to juggle a job and rehab program. If you take the sentence, the lifelong costs are trivial instead of devastating. Your network is usually strong enough to support you. And this is assuming you don't know somebody that will let you off the hook.
This sounded like an older brother guiding a 21 year old sister. "Please don't do this thing, it will ruin your life. I'm not your dad, and cannot run your life for you, but please do not do this thing."
You have no idea what her attorney has tried to do for her. In the end if she wants to plead she gets to plead they don’t get to change her mind for her. There is either one of two things going on here. Either she just is really dumb and doesn’t understand the opportunity she is being given(doubt) or the more likely situation. When someone is given an opportunity like this and everyone with eyes can see what the way choice is but someone still isn’t taking it. It’s for a reason. The only reason someone would prefer to be charged and “get it over with” is because to them it’s not actually a Better deal. With the class comes along have an interlock and monitoring and needing to stay clean. If she is still addicted and doesn’t want to get clean then th easy answer here is to take the charge and be done. Notice how the judge kept saying all you need to do is do the class and stay clean. Well if you can’t stay clean then of course you would rather plead and be able to use again. Most addicts when arrested are ordered to stay clean either through probation or these types of classes. Most addicts don’t finally decide “hey I should stop using and finally get clean” just because they got arrested. It’s a hard thing to get sober and I have pity for everyone who has to deal with such a massive and sometimes hopeless adversity.
hell, if i ever got a DUI / DWI i would be BEGGING the judge for ANYTHING to get it dismissed and not take that conviction. 4000 Community service? ill do 5 hours every day after work, 15 hours per day on weekends... ANYTHING to get that charge dismissed and thrown out.
Wish i had a judge like him when i got pushed into a plea deal. An ounce of weed in 1995, never been in trouble since. Still being denied jobs because of it. I needed a better lawyer and a better judge. Life sentence for sure.
Who wants to bet that her boss wouldn't let her time off work to do the drug test? Sometimes it's other people who are AH and the unfair part is that the AH are usually not in trouble with the law.
It is completely broken if if 10% percent more people refused to waive right to speedy trial it would completely collapse. There are prosecutors prosecuting cases with bad evidence and all the care about is winning not justice. There are people in prison who were co-defendants tried separately where they supposedly committed a crime together but one defendant was exonerated and other is in prison when if one person could not have committed the crime it is impossible for the other to have this is insanity. The justice system is only field that can use the statement it’s not perfect but it’s the best we got and it is acceptable would you accept that standard from a surgeon or pilot.
Go to jail, pay fines, and still let it be held over your head for the rest of your life. You never get out of debt to society no matter what you do. The antithesis to the core of what the US claims to be.
It's crazy that a one-off mistake and a misinformed guilty plea will mess your life up forever. It doesn't make any sense to destroy people's lives like that.
Seen Judge Fleischer in a bunch of videos… he cares about people. He does care about the law but he also cares about people. Many judges would take the easy road and just allow her to plead guilty and move on.
Everytime I see this Jusge, he is by far the best example of what I hope a Judge will act like! He deserves much more money, authority &: should be mentoring video taped & required viewing in law schools!
I was under the influence of a concussion when I tried to represent myself. The judge was the opposite of this fellow, and drooling like a predator and ridiculed me for saying that I was not sure if I was in any condition for this thoughtful process.
Never plead guilty at the start of trial. It's a dummy option; you're not really meant to take it, even if you did it and your 'guilt' is undeniable. You have the right to make the Prosecutor present their case, with no downside, there is zero reason not to use this right.
@@daryengreye6573 The only way a Canadian is being turned away is if they have multiple convictions for dui. Canadians thinks they are better than everyone else.
Somewhat disturbing that the judge is the one explaining this to her, in front of the lawyer who was happy to have her plead and should have been the one giving this explanation to her. "When you take a half-ass approach" - would that be an implicit criticism of her lawyer?
It sounds like he tried to but she didn’t want to hear it… i think when he started talking to Judge Flesicher he KNEW this judge was the kind to beat some sense into her and was leading the judge down that path from the beginning. I think he likely did a good job.
I suspect that the defense attorney did advise his client of all that, but she wanted to go ahead with the time served plea deal. And he probably said something like "I advise against that," but ultimately it's the defendant's decision and it's not really his job to convince her otherwise after he's laid out the facts and given his advice. It looked to me like he was quite happy that his client seemed to be changing her mind and was happy to chime in to support the judge's advice.
Looks like the judge spoke to her longer than public defender. Not blaming him entirely because he is probably overworked with a massive case load and so has to rush through every case.
I see it as she was scared.of the missed test and told her attorney to just take the conviction and be done with it. She can't see herself finishing successfully when she can't follow the rules long enough to even start the program. The attorney tried telling her but the judge had the power to make her stop and listen.
This judge is great. Sometimes I think he still thinks he is a defence attorney though lol. I saw one the other day where he basically told a guy not to say anything and laid into the prosecutor before letting him go.
Especially in the Texas police state Court 1 the prosecutor once a month up to 2 years sometimes 5 years your court appointed attorney tries to convince you to do a plea. Since the jury don't know law if it's a 10-year sentence the jury gives you 10 years especially if it has to do with any form of drugs if you do a plea maybe a couple years plus probation it's designed to punish you to plead not guilty
Get the judge on the Supreme Court now. He’s the Bernie Sanders of judges. Actually cares about the law, community and even has compassion for the accused if they deserve it, for the benefit of everyone.
The problem is the legal system, it's designed to be punitive and problematic. To make peole choose the easy way out of it, and CACs push for plea deals or conviction agreements. Pretty much so the judicial system can justify they're solving the problems they create. The courtroom should be about finding truth and nothing more. The fact she's being required to "drug test" as a "PRE-CONVICTION" condition is absurd. Guilty until proven innocent.
You failed to pay attention. She was guilty of driving under the influence. Further, as a condition of deferment she had to take a test which she missed. She wanted to plead guilty and the judge had reason to suspect it was to avoid a positive on the test. The judge did her very well explaining the costs of a plea. Chances are insurance alone would exceed the cost of the interlock. This judge seems quite balanced between wanting to protect society and not allowing police state. There is a video of him throwing out four probably causes in a row. He doesn’t allow the whores (aka police) to simply fill his docket.
@AbNomal621 .... And what if she can prove her innocence in courts? They are still imposing a condition that seems more punitive. If someone is going to commit DUI and continue doing so, testing and monitoring isn't helping. It's just exasperating their issues that likely brings them that point to begin with. Also, people get falsely accused of DUI all the time and still have do deal with these same punitive PRE-CONVICTION requirements, regardless of their innocence. I have nothing against the Honorable Judge on the bench, the system is broken.
> The courtroom should be about finding truth and nothing more. The fact she's being required to "drug test" as a "PRE-CONVICTION" condition is absurd. How do you want to find the truth without gathering data? Sure, DUI trials are quite simplified because of how many there are, but it's just the equivalent of "sir, you're under suspicion of fraud, so as part of discovery please give it to us through your attorney all your communication within the last 6 months you had with Mr X and Y, and your work computer so that it can be searched, and be ready to come for multiple days of various deposition, etc". The goal is to find additional elements of proofs that will complete the already known facts, and that's particularly important in cases where the guild is uncertain. The judiciary inquiring for data is not a penalty. It's applied to innocent and guilty alike, so it has nothing to do with innocence/guilt. > The problem is the legal system, it's designed to be punitive and problematic. To make peole choose the easy way out of it, and CACs push for plea deals or conviction agreements. However, I mostly agree on that point. Generally speaking, the justice system is simply unable to treat fairly all the cases brought in front of it, and that's with simple math (I'm not even talking about unfairness between individuals) : the amount of work each case require (with the current laws) multiplied by the number of case is an order of magnitude higher than what the system can do. So plea deals are pushed forward as a way to reduce the amount of work for the court, at the cost of some innocent being pushed into a guilty plea deal.
Wow! This actually helps everyone! A good experience with the justice system may just put some people on the right path. That helps the person, but also the public suffering from criminal behaviour.
The way the lawyer was nodding along, I hope he was learning from the judges demeanor and words because it feels like he was not able to get the same information across to his client.
Too many courthouses around the country are just looking for convictions. It's so refreshing to see a judge who cares about the PEOPLE in these cases rather than just getting convictions on the books.
Impressed by the humanity of the judge & the lawyer. If only the highest court in the land was as careful about the effects on ordinary people of their decisions. Young men and women increasing choice of sterilization as contraception since SCOTUS got rid of Roe V. Wade has consequences for their futures.
You shouldn't be punished throughout your life for something you already been punished for. This is unconstitutional and falls under cruel and unusual punishment.
@nigelanscombe8658 The state is punishing you by labeling you. That label prevents the person from obtaining jobs which would better their life. This puts them in a situation where it provokes them to go back to criminal behavior to obtain a better level of living. The labeling is how the corrupt courts keep a cycle of people going in and out of the prison system cause they profit from it. America was founded on the principle that once you serve your sentence, all rights are to be restored, no labels.
It is unconstitutional for the government to punish you twice for the same crime. Private citizens (including landlords) however are free to do whatever they want in the name of "freedom". Every time people propose the government curtail certain behavior of corporations and landlords these very same corporations and landlords will cry "unconstitutional" or "socialism is bad"
@@nigelanscombe8658 If you’ve done your time and served your sentence, people’s access to that information should be pretty limited. Security clearance, professions like doctors or pilots, sure, but otherwise? Nah.
I love this judge. Good job Judge David Fleischer, I have never met you, but you are a great guy. We walk among demons, this judge is a light in this dark world.
It is really scary, that this is a "unique interaction" worth highlighting. How shitty is your legal system? That should be the default interaction. Not only by the judge but also by everyone involved before. None of that information should be new to her at that point. None of it. If she was properly informed, that interaction wouldn't have to take place.
Judge use to be a defence lawyer. He wanted to help people with misdemeanors change their life before criminal life crescendos. He became a Judge & took a 50% pay cut. Now that's a real man, making real changes! Perfect example on this case!
Thanks for this info. It helps understand a little more about him. Much appreciated!
Seriously?
I think all Judges where lawyers but I am not 100% sure on that. It is good that he is looking out for the best for people.
@@EricN73158 Yes lawyers but usually states prosecutors, the kind that tries to prove to a judge that people or a company is wrong and should be punished.
This guy was a defense lawyer the kind that helps defend peoples rights.
Only ~7% of judges were on the defense side.
Federal judges ~1%.
This judge tries hard to be impartial and unbiased.
We need more judges like this. Seems like a good guy, and explains things in plain English.
...even when the people in front of him don't speak any English. 🤣
Yeah, he's a good and fair judge... Just be a reasonable human being and don't get on his bad side...
We need more judges to talk a guilty person out of the consequences of their actions? No wonder crime is skyrocketing.
@@skajake just think a bit: it's a clean person, ex addict, that just missed an appointment.
How would convicting her and make her life way harder do any good to her, her family, her community and even her city community?
@@skajake Just watch some more of his court cases... You will see, he's a just judge, not super lenient.. So if he does this he'll probably has a good motivation to do so.. What OP means is: "We need more judges that haven't forgotten they are human"
This judge is honest and compassionate about justice.
He is outstanding!
He truly cares about protecting the public, even protecting then from the letter of the law. Outstanding.
Ehhh. He’s a woke looney. He lets people off on stuff they’re objectively guilty of based on his personal feelings. Sure, this is nice and all, but I’d prefer an unbiased judge.
We don't have a justice system in the usa. This judge is highlighting that fact.
@@italienn "a woke looney". Yeah I'm sure if there were videos of a judge brutalising those who came before him, you'd be singing his praises and calling him 'unbiased'.
When the judge talks to you like that, in that type of tone, you listen and take the hint. He really wanted to scream at her "Don't do the plea!"
Makes sense. He was a criminal defense lawyer for a long time before this.
It's always a good idea to take what the judge is telling you seriously. If they're telling you not to do something, you really need to think about whether that's really something you want to do.
Her public defender should have told her all of this too!
No doubt he did. Unfortunately, most people don't take into account the long term consequences.
He clearly had tried to and did NOT want her to plead. She wanted the “easy” way out. She likely hadn’t thought about the cost of insurance being more than the interlock.
He probably did we do not know what he did or did not do, so do not male assumptions.
considering that the judge complimented him on his work, I suppose at least the judge assumed that he did that.
He did, but she just wanted to be done with it. Her thinking was that if I plead guilty, I'll just pay the fines of the court and go on with my life. Defense lawyers are not going to continuously tell you "that's a bad decision". It's the defendants choice at the end of the day. If that's what they want, that's what they want. It wasn't until the judge giving her the full perspective and his two cents, did she start to consider her options.
This judge is great. He is really focussed on getting people back on track instead of getting into more problems.
A judge that doesn’t wear a black robe and doesn’t think he is a deity.
This judge is Great....if more Judges were like him it be a better world ....if the person has proven they can't be trusted he doesn't give them a break...he doesn't rubber-stamp things and don't let people hand the d a a lay up
No, he thinks he's a media star.
@@bobdrooplesthis isn't his account, genius.
@@jaypressleyThey never implied it was. But he wouldn't be the first viral judge to see videos of himself online, which he likely has.
@@bobdrooples I get the impression this judge doesn't give 2 hoots about celebrity. He's in it for the principal of it.
Her, $300 to $1000 is too much!
Judge, Bruh, it's $7,000 at least if you plead lmao.
You're not paying attention. At 6:32 that's exactly what he said. Listed the 30 days in jail, community service AND $6 - 7,000 in fines and costs.
@@DiscoFangthe commenter was loosely quoting the engagement that took place
@@DiscoFang what's the point of your comment?
@@DiscoFang “you’re not paying attention”, they missed out the quotation marks but “that’s exactly what he said”.
@@DiscoFangyou're not paying attention. OP used commas instead of colons
I love this guy. He's the type of judge that ever other judge should look up to.
The Honourable Judge is soooo right. At 59 years of age I was applying for citizenship to another country. The investigations they did were the last 10 years in the country I'm now living in BUT a question on the form was if you have ever lived in another country I must get police certificates from all other countries. Thankfully I have a clean record. You never know where you will be 35+ years down the track or so.
Yep, a lot of countries flat out won't let you in if you have any convictions. There's people who can only be with their spouse in the area between the US and Canada because they're both banned from one of the countries. And for visas, potentially health conditions can also screw that up as well.
Or you throw your passport and ID away and get to Germany. After about 5 years you are a citizen with a clean slate.
Amazed at the number of comments criticising the lawyer for not pointing all this out........
Perhaps he did and she just thought it's fine, I'll do time then I'm out.... job done, but it took hearing it all from a judge to make it sink in.
he didnt have time to explain it all
To be honest, given that she was still on the fence the second time she was in front of him a little while later tells me that even the judge being crystal clear - effectively telling her that "you would be an idiot to plead guilty to this" - didn't entirely get through to her.
Cheap Lawyer= poor results.
Also the woman wasn't very bright to understand what is best for herself.
@@petertraveller6421 “She wasn’t very bright?!?” How about she wasn’t educated in the ins & outs of legal proceedings that elite kids learn from their upscale parents weaseling themselves out of consequences! I have a BSN in nursing & was a Certified NP for two + decades, so not exactly stupid. But I wouldn’t have known most of what the judge was telling her about long term consequences! Shame on you!
PDs sell plea bargains to defendants regardless of guilt or innocence.
They ain't trying to go to a full court trial because that costs time and time is money.
I was shocked that the young lady still seemed to be contemplating pleading guilty after the judge mentioned the likely financial repercussions of that choice.
They literally don't understand future consequences. She only understands that she doesn't want the interlock and will risk it
A lot of people trust friends and family and pressure and fear over thinking logically and for themselves. Very often they will turn a blind eye to a helping hand even if it ruins them
When you are struggling financially today, you may not be worried about finances in the future.
Yeah cause it could have been a trap. Guilty pleas are a thing for a reason.
This Judge is showing his humanity.
Judge Fleisher is literally the BEST judge in the world. I wish we could could copy and paste him into every court in America. The USA would be a much better place!
Why isn’t her lawyer telling her these things that the judge said??? Most judges wouldn’t take the time to explain to her!!!
How do you know he didn’t? Do you just like to assume the worst about people?
There's no evidence in this video if he did or didn't already provide this counsel. Apparently he arranged the programme already.
A judge that has compassion. Awesome
the heart and love this man has for his community and the people and wanting to see them doing great moving forward is amazing. he tries to empower the people that stand before him is beautiful.
He is outstanding!
Hmm would you say that if this woman had committed that same criminal act and killed or injured one of your friends or family with her drink/drug driving? I don't think you would be praising him for his community spirit then would you? or let's just assume we are not 2 years down the road from now and she returns to the road having finished her programme and not faced any consequences of her drink/drug driving and now two years on she crashes into your friends or family members car and injuries or kills them, would you be praising Judge Fleischer's actions with this women to see her 'helped' and doing his bit for community. I doubt very much that you would think his actions would be "amazing" then.
She is a serious danger to society; she deserves to be given the harshest punishment possible. not given a chance to walk away without any blemish or record on her file of her actions and potential danger she posed to society, it is only by the grace of God that she has not killed someone. It is not through her skill or the legal system that nobody was harmed.
This is why you have such a problem in the US with DWI/DUI because you do not have a severe enough punishment that deters this criminality. In the UK you can face jail time for DWI, loss of your driving privileges for years and sky rocketing insurance costs for up to a decade after as well as loss of your job, home, all have been lost as a result in the UK. In some cases, you are forced to retake your driver's exam again to get your licence back.
So, until the US starts punishing these social pariahs for their criminality, appropriately, they will keep offending.
There should be no leniency in the law for risking the lives of innocent third parties, for your own personal desire to drive while drunk/drugged when an uber is a phone call or app tap away.
@@HypocrisyLaidBare You clearly have never seen him with bad people! If she had killed someone he would not be lenient!
Both the attorney and Judge are exceptional human beings. They are incredibly beautiful. They are the perfect for their roles in society.
Judge is the GOAT. All judges should be defense attys
This guy actually was a defense attorney before he became a judge
Evergy judge I've known has had some experience working as a defense attorney. I don't know if that is the case everywhere, but it definitely should be in my opinion. They know the law from all perspectives and that is a very good thing.
He was a defense attorney! He took a 50% pay cut to become a judge & change the system.
@@usaturnuranusJudges tend to have been prosecutors, which makes sense if you think about it. Prosecutors work for the government and have more visibility than defense attorneys. That's not to say that they may not have also worked defense at some time, but a judge without a prosecution background is somewhat uncommon.
This shows the system is broken.
Because your tired, because you don't have the money, because you are in a bit of a mess, you take the plea just for it to be over.
And you are punished for your whole life. Just stop, you are setting people up to fail.
A master class for the defendant in what it means, in totality, to plead guilty to a DWI. I hope she did well in her classes! 👍♥👍
This judge is almost surreal. His apparent genuine care for those brought before him is touching.
I love this judge, and everything he said was true- unless you apply it to someone who is wealthy. As we’ve seen countless times, if you have enough money, you can get out of ANYTHING.
But even then you don't plead guilty, but you have the trial, and delay, and appeal, and delay, and appeal, etc...
If you're wealthy enough, you don't need to juggle a job and rehab program. If you take the sentence, the lifelong costs are trivial instead of devastating. Your network is usually strong enough to support you. And this is assuming you don't know somebody that will let you off the hook.
This sounded like an older brother guiding a 21 year old sister. "Please don't do this thing, it will ruin your life. I'm not your dad, and cannot run your life for you, but please do not do this thing."
The last hope for justice in America. One in a million compassionate Judge!
Judge is working way harder for her than her attorney is. Now that’s criminal…
I know right? This guy isn't even bottom of the barrel, he's from twenty feet underneath it...
For all we know, her atty may have given her the exact same pep talk and she ignored it
You have no idea what her attorney has tried to do for her. In the end if she wants to plead she gets to plead they don’t get to change her mind for her. There is either one of two things going on here. Either she just is really dumb and doesn’t understand the opportunity she is being given(doubt) or the more likely situation. When someone is given an opportunity like this and everyone with eyes can see what the way choice is but someone still isn’t taking it. It’s for a reason. The only reason someone would prefer to be charged and “get it over with” is because to them it’s not actually a Better deal. With the class comes along have an interlock and monitoring and needing to stay clean. If she is still addicted and doesn’t want to get clean then th easy answer here is to take the charge and be done. Notice how the judge kept saying all you need to do is do the class and stay clean. Well if you can’t stay clean then of course you would rather plead and be able to use again. Most addicts when arrested are ordered to stay clean either through probation or these types of classes. Most addicts don’t finally decide “hey I should stop using and finally get clean” just because they got arrested. It’s a hard thing to get sober and I have pity for everyone who has to deal with such a massive and sometimes hopeless adversity.
@BobbyDigital805 Sadly this. Seen too many refuse drug court referrals, which cleans their record, but nerds them to stay clean. They don't want to.
@@GodwynDi But after 1 month she should be clean too, right? Right?
In the UK the police and judges try to get you to plead guilty when you’re innocent 😂
hell, if i ever got a DUI / DWI i would be BEGGING the judge for ANYTHING to get it dismissed and not take that conviction. 4000 Community service? ill do 5 hours every day after work, 15 hours per day on weekends... ANYTHING to get that charge dismissed and thrown out.
Wish i had a judge like him when i got pushed into a plea deal. An ounce of weed in 1995, never been in trouble since. Still being denied jobs because of it. I needed a better lawyer and a better judge. Life sentence for sure.
Who wants to bet that her boss wouldn't let her time off work to do the drug test? Sometimes it's other people who are AH and the unfair part is that the AH are usually not in trouble with the law.
Amber Heard? 😅
A compassionate judge.
What an awesome judge. He REALLY cares about people.
This judge makes me believe the system isn't isn't completely broken, but we sure need more judges like him. He seems like a good man.
It is completely broken if if 10% percent more people refused to waive right to speedy trial it would completely collapse. There are prosecutors prosecuting cases with bad evidence and all the care about is winning not justice. There are people in prison who were co-defendants tried separately where they supposedly committed a crime together but one defendant was exonerated and other is in prison when if one person could not have committed the crime it is impossible for the other to have this is insanity. The justice system is only field that can use the statement it’s not perfect but it’s the best we got and it is acceptable would you accept that standard from a surgeon or pilot.
He is the exception in a huge way
Go to jail, pay fines, and still let it be held over your head for the rest of your life. You never get out of debt to society no matter what you do. The antithesis to the core of what the US claims to be.
The fact he explained this so well on a level she can full comprehend says a lot about this judge's character.
It's crazy that a one-off mistake and a misinformed guilty plea will mess your life up forever. It doesn't make any sense to destroy people's lives like that.
Seen Judge Fleischer in a bunch of videos… he cares about people. He does care about the law but he also cares about people. Many judges would take the easy road and just allow her to plead guilty and move on.
it's really nice to see changes to the criminal justice system that reflect this sentiment
He is genuinely trying to help, so nice to see a good person who isnt power mad. He is doing gods work.
Everytime I see this Jusge, he is by far the best example of what I hope a Judge will act like! He deserves much more money, authority &: should be mentoring video taped & required viewing in law schools!
What an extradinary guy. A true mensch.
I’ve seen this judge before.
Actual champion.
I was under the influence of a concussion when I tried to represent myself.
The judge was the opposite of this fellow, and drooling like a predator and ridiculed me for saying that I was not sure if I was in any condition for this thoughtful process.
Stuck Like Chuck😁
He's doing it his own way and I respect that because he genuinely seems like he wants to help the people that enter his court room.
Oh my oh my this judge gave her second life. She has no idea what plead guilty would do. God bless the Judge
Never plead guilty at the start of trial. It's a dummy option; you're not really meant to take it, even if you did it and your 'guilt' is undeniable. You have the right to make the Prosecutor present their case, with no downside, there is zero reason not to use this right.
This guy is a great judge
Another thing you can't do with a DUI on your record is go to Canada.
Whoa! No kidding?
@CardinalNinetyTwo They consider duis almost as murder or a bb gun. I don't know why anyone would want to go to that horrible country anyways.
Not immediately. You can appeal to get in.
Works in reverse too as I understand it. Canadian with dui conviction can't travel to USA
@@daryengreye6573 The only way a Canadian is being turned away is if they have multiple convictions for dui. Canadians thinks they are better than everyone else.
What's the question??? Why does she want to plead guilty to this?!
This is the kind of judge we need on SCOTUS, actually gives a F
Somewhat disturbing that the judge is the one explaining this to her, in front of the lawyer who was happy to have her plead and should have been the one giving this explanation to her. "When you take a half-ass approach" - would that be an implicit criticism of her lawyer?
It sounds like he tried to but she didn’t want to hear it… i think when he started talking to Judge Flesicher he KNEW this judge was the kind to beat some sense into her and was leading the judge down that path from the beginning. I think he likely did a good job.
I suspect that the defense attorney did advise his client of all that, but she wanted to go ahead with the time served plea deal. And he probably said something like "I advise against that," but ultimately it's the defendant's decision and it's not really his job to convince her otherwise after he's laid out the facts and given his advice. It looked to me like he was quite happy that his client seemed to be changing her mind and was happy to chime in to support the judge's advice.
Why do you assume the lawyer didn’t as well? Even after the judge explained it she didn’t seem convinced.
He couldn’t have made it any clearer as to which was the best option. I hope she made the right decision.
What a good human this Judge is... thank you Sir, for being the gift that you are, to the people you serve.
He needs to be on the Supreme Court
You couldn’t be more accomodating than this judge.
Poor Chuck is always stuck 😢
I bet the DA was disappointed.
Can’t believe how corrupt this judge is overriding her plea 😡 Lol
Also one other thing is you can't appeal your case if you plead guilty, unless new evidence is found.
Looks like the judge spoke to her longer than public defender. Not blaming him entirely because he is probably overworked with a massive case load and so has to rush through every case.
I see it as she was scared.of the missed test and told her attorney to just take the conviction and be done with it. She can't see herself finishing successfully when she can't follow the rules long enough to even start the program.
The attorney tried telling her but the judge had the power to make her stop and listen.
I have dealt with the law for 28 years, and the only reason this judge is being so lenient is because she showed up negative.
Clearly given that he wouldn’t allow anything until after the test. He clearly was concerned she was trying to take time served to avoid a test.
You havent seen this judge very much. It takes a lot to make him mad.
@mustbetrue1602 I heard that noise fellow interner.
That judge is a legend,
This is how Justice is served properly.
He’s putting in so much effort to help her. Does she understand what she’s saying?
"Let's send you to jail for life with no parole, on circumstancial evidence and perjury, instead".
This judge is great. Sometimes I think he still thinks he is a defence attorney though lol. I saw one the other day where he basically told a guy not to say anything and laid into the prosecutor before letting him go.
Prosecutor is probably pissed
Especially in the Texas police state Court 1 the prosecutor once a month up to 2 years sometimes 5 years your court appointed attorney tries to convince you to do a plea. Since the jury don't know law if it's a 10-year sentence the jury gives you 10 years especially if it has to do with any form of drugs if you do a plea maybe a couple years plus probation it's designed to punish you to plead not guilty
A minimum of 10 years?
Get the judge on the Supreme Court now. He’s the Bernie Sanders of judges. Actually cares about the law, community and even has compassion for the accused if they deserve it, for the benefit of everyone.
The problem is the legal system, it's designed to be punitive and problematic. To make peole choose the easy way out of it, and CACs push for plea deals or conviction agreements. Pretty much so the judicial system can justify they're solving the problems they create.
The courtroom should be about finding truth and nothing more. The fact she's being required to "drug test" as a "PRE-CONVICTION" condition is absurd. Guilty until proven innocent.
You failed to pay attention. She was guilty of driving under the influence. Further, as a condition of deferment she had to take a test which she missed. She wanted to plead guilty and the judge had reason to suspect it was to avoid a positive on the test. The judge did her very well explaining the costs of a plea. Chances are insurance alone would exceed the cost of the interlock.
This judge seems quite balanced between wanting to protect society and not allowing police state. There is a video of him throwing out four probably causes in a row. He doesn’t allow the whores (aka police) to simply fill his docket.
@AbNomal621 .... And what if she can prove her innocence in courts? They are still imposing a condition that seems more punitive. If someone is going to commit DUI and continue doing so, testing and monitoring isn't helping. It's just exasperating their issues that likely brings them that point to begin with.
Also, people get falsely accused of DUI all the time and still have do deal with these same punitive PRE-CONVICTION requirements, regardless of their innocence.
I have nothing against the Honorable Judge on the bench, the system is broken.
> The courtroom should be about finding truth and nothing more. The fact she's being required to "drug test" as a "PRE-CONVICTION" condition is absurd.
How do you want to find the truth without gathering data? Sure, DUI trials are quite simplified because of how many there are, but it's just the equivalent of "sir, you're under suspicion of fraud, so as part of discovery please give it to us through your attorney all your communication within the last 6 months you had with Mr X and Y, and your work computer so that it can be searched, and be ready to come for multiple days of various deposition, etc". The goal is to find additional elements of proofs that will complete the already known facts, and that's particularly important in cases where the guild is uncertain.
The judiciary inquiring for data is not a penalty. It's applied to innocent and guilty alike, so it has nothing to do with innocence/guilt.
> The problem is the legal system, it's designed to be punitive and problematic. To make peole choose the easy way out of it, and CACs push for plea deals or conviction agreements.
However, I mostly agree on that point. Generally speaking, the justice system is simply unable to treat fairly all the cases brought in front of it, and that's with simple math (I'm not even talking about unfairness between individuals) : the amount of work each case require (with the current laws) multiplied by the number of case is an order of magnitude higher than what the system can do. So plea deals are pushed forward as a way to reduce the amount of work for the court, at the cost of some innocent being pushed into a guilty plea deal.
You’re a good man. Bless you
That is an awesome judge.
This judge chose the right profession. Someone who really cares about the people in front of him. Hope he goes into politics.
This judge is really good as long as you are respectful and didn't do something terribly wrong
Good judges do exist. Bravo.
The one good judge, he does exist.
What happened to “Let’s go nerds”? That was funny. Love this judge.
Wow! This actually helps everyone! A good experience with the justice system may just put some people on the right path. That helps the person, but also the public suffering from criminal behaviour.
My faith in humanity improves with this judge.
I've had judges reject pleas before mainly because defendants think that they can somehow maintain their innocence during and after th3 plea
This guy is the benchmark for a considerate judge
The way the lawyer was nodding along, I hope he was learning from the judges demeanor and words because it feels like he was not able to get the same information across to his client.
Too many courthouses around the country are just looking for convictions. It's so refreshing to see a judge who cares about the PEOPLE in these cases rather than just getting convictions on the books.
You ever been to court? I was cited for a 4 year expired inspection and the judge let me go.
@@1Corinthians151-4 Yes I have. For a normal traffic ticket, I was given 24 hours of community service.
Impressed by the humanity of the judge & the lawyer. If only the highest court in the land was as careful about the effects on ordinary people of their decisions. Young men and women increasing choice of sterilization as contraception since SCOTUS got rid of Roe V. Wade has consequences for their futures.
You shouldn't be punished throughout your life for something you already been punished for. This is unconstitutional and falls under cruel and unusual punishment.
Unfortunately, that is how the ruling class set up the system inorder to unjustly punish the peasants.
However, the State isn’t punishing you.
@nigelanscombe8658 The state is punishing you by labeling you. That label prevents the person from obtaining jobs which would better their life. This puts them in a situation where it provokes them to go back to criminal behavior to obtain a better level of living. The labeling is how the corrupt courts keep a cycle of people going in and out of the prison system cause they profit from it. America was founded on the principle that once you serve your sentence, all rights are to be restored, no labels.
It is unconstitutional for the government to punish you twice for the same crime. Private citizens (including landlords) however are free to do whatever they want in the name of "freedom". Every time people propose the government curtail certain behavior of corporations and landlords these very same corporations and landlords will cry "unconstitutional" or "socialism is bad"
@@nigelanscombe8658 If you’ve done your time and served your sentence, people’s access to that information should be pretty limited. Security clearance, professions like doctors or pilots, sure, but otherwise? Nah.
This judge is also the lawyer at the same time.
The caring Judge is great 🙂
Wow, great judge
What an amazing man!!!
Truly honorable.
The defender is the worst one I have seen. He should reconsider his chosen profession.
Most judges treat this like some kind of stupid guessing game and just allow people to unknowingly ruin their lives
I think all judges should have at least 5 years as defense attorneys. Would be way better.
What the judge is really saying is - the justice system is screwed up
I love this judge. Good job Judge David Fleischer, I have never met you, but you are a great guy. We walk among demons, this judge is a light in this dark world.
Faith in humanity restored.
Such a sweet empathetic judge
A real judge. Justice was done here! Praise be to God all mighty!
They should teach this in school
What a guy. What, a, guy.
It is really scary, that this is a "unique interaction" worth highlighting.
How shitty is your legal system? That should be the default interaction. Not only by the judge but also by everyone involved before.
None of that information should be new to her at that point. None of it. If she was properly informed, that interaction wouldn't have to take place.