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Because that’s not what impartial means. Impartial doesn’t mean dispassionate, hardly any judge sits a bench and not feel something about at least ten percent of their cases.
Impartial means not allowing that emotion to be the main driver. Judges and juries are not robots and the Court system takes this facet into account in appeals.
But, if some dude had jumped at you like a flying squirrel, attacking you and pulling out some of your hair, do you think that you’d be able to make any determinations about that individual without emotion?
She should recuse herself since she’s once of his assault victims.
She had already determined the sentencing, she just needs to deliver it without getting beaten up. If any defendant could get a new judge by assaulting the one assigned, it would bring in a new era of judge shopping.
I think he needs a good long stay in prison. He's already a convicted felon and this just proved he's not fit to be in society. The judge is well within her rights to sentence him to life if she chooses.
I think he deserves life in prison as well, but that should be sentenced by another judge.
Yeah. It comes with being a sociopath. Have you met lawyers?
Again you're mistaking what impartial means. It does not mean zero emotion, it means that emotions cannot be the primary factor.
The judge is a human being, expecting zero emotion is not having a real world view of the court system. Human beings, that feel emotion dictate justice for other human beings. Justice is not an innate construct of the universe, it exists merely as an idea within our mind and nothing more.
There is no such thing as absolute objective justice nor is there absolute subjective justice. It is a balance and each step of the way in the system is to ensure that balance. But there's no magic string of words that instruct how to keep that balance, it's just up to the minds of those that preserve justice to do such.