LOS ANGELES (CN) — The FBI informant indicted on charges of giving the bureau false information about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter which was subsequently used by Republican lawmakers and pundits to try to discredit the administration lost his bid to stay out of jail.
U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II, at a hearing Monday morning in downtown Los Angeles, remanded Alexander Smirnov to jail to await his trial.
“There’s nothing garden variety about his case,” Wright said in rejecting the arguments of Smirnov’s attorney that he wasn’t a flight risk.
Awesome. Otis Wright ftw. I’ve seen quite a few cases where his decisions have been excellent. I remember his decision on sanctioning the Prenda Law attorneys for their porn copyright shakedowns that was peppered with Star Trek references.
What? I’m gonna need a link to share with !tenforward@lemmy.world lmao
https://www.wired.com/2013/05/copyright-trolling-attorneys/
Uh you follow judges?? How, or does he just pop up in the news a lot? It is the most frustrating part of voting for me because I often have to vote for judges and all these small but meaningful positions and I can search far and wide and still not able to make a more meaningful decision than flipping a coin. I hate it so if anyone knows some sources that cover conviction rates or SOMETHING. Anything.
I follow a lot of copyright law stuff and general law stuff on YouTube. So he comes up in that kind of news every so often. It helps that a friend of mine was a party that was shaken down by those Prenda Law attorneys. Basically, you torrented porn, settle for $3-5k now or we drag your name through the mud. Only it turns out they were doing a lot of fraud as well as the extortion.
But anyway he’s a Federal District Court judge so he’s appointed though. And my state is one where the judges aren’t elected either so I don’t really follow that or have any resources.