If a judge is called ‘corrupt’ by a defendant outside court in front of the media, or if something more unambiguously libelous is said, can the judge sue the defendant?
If a judge is called ‘corrupt’ by a defendant outside court in front of the media, or if something more unambiguously libelous is said, can the judge sue the defendant?
After thinking again:
In most parts of the world, such behaviour would bring you a few years extra in some really bad jail, or 30 good strikes extra with the whip (this is near death), or simply a stronger kind of penalty than you deserve for whatever you have done. It is a bad idea. It is far from funny.
Of course you are talking of the Usa here. And of course their system is corrupted. But I really don’t think it is that corrupted that you could actually get an advantage from such bad behaviour instead of an extra penalty.