Anyone Watch Will Smith Story on KATC News Tonight?
The fact that the judge could have broken a law by releasing him on his own recognizance makes this a story. Add the fact that the judge removed pictures of her and Will Smith down from facebook in the hour since KATC first reported certainly doesn't make it any less newsworthy. Good thing she pulled this one post-election. :covri:
It may be newsworthy, but it was done in tacky fashion, like that aggrivating brown noser reminding the teacher about a quiz/homework right before the bell rings. It had that kind of feel to it.
I'm good friends with a mayor in a certain town where his police give bogus tickets. I take the ticket to my good friend the mayor and he makes it dissappear-- because he knows me, and he knows the cop, and he has a good idea what kind of ROTC wanna be this cop was in school and how this cop maybe throws around his weight more than he should. Would it be better to use his judgement and throw the ticket out as opposed to all the court time and man hours that would eventually result in the same thing?
This may be Louisiana, and we may be a little crooked, but if both Smith and his wife agree to what happened (and it could have been something to the affect of him restraining her from getting into a fight with a woman flirting with him and causing an even bigger mess) and his wife suffered no visible truama, no cops were called, does this need to go to court and do charges really need to be filed?
Point is sometimes common sense is better than the process of the law, and if someone in position can help you or Will Smith & Family circumvent the legal process because common sense dictates it should never have gone that far to begin with, what's the big deal? Yeah, the judge is "friends" of the family, but maybe that's how she knows she is making a better judgement. And maybe she gets a campaign donation for it. So what, this is Louisiana.