Quote Originally Posted by kevinpate View Post
I won't call it a goal, but without question it is an unavoidable side effect in the process involved when someone is pressing a request for a judge to step down.
Ersland is a very fortunate defendant. For one he was granted bail - and bail he could pay - and two, he was able to keep his job. That is often not the case for most criminal defendants. People don't realize the system often punishes without ever getting a conviction and sometimes that is the goal.