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Originally Posted by
odoreater 
Ah, the "trial tax." By doing what you were doing, aren't you sending a message to the State (prosecutor and cops) that they don't really have to do their job in the best manner possible, because even if they don't, the judge will consider whatever defenses may be raised as "BS defenses" and will slap the defendant even harder than if they had just admitted their culpability?
No. Maybe I wasn't clear, or maybe you read quickly. If someone raised a good-faith argument or defense, I made a point of
not holding it against them in any way. And I didn't impose any
extra sanction on people for any sort of response (even an obviously false or bad faith one) beyond what the statutory default was. Rather, I would consider accommodations for people whose acceptance of responsbility and baseline honesty demonstrated that they might make appropriate use of a "second chance". Put differently, if you're going to ask a judge (even a BS faux judge like me) for an accomodation in your favor, committing obvious perjury or being deliberately obstructive doesn't really help your argument.
I have no idea how you took, from a post that explicitly distinguished between BS arguments and good-faith arguments, that I would be sending the messages to cops and prosecutors that all defenses will be considered BS defenses.
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