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In my 14 years as a prosecutor, I took my share of tongue lashings from judges.

Don't get me wrong. I wasn't the rebellious bad boy of the SDNY, and I was always conscious of treating judges with respect. One small lesson I learned early on, for example, was never to

address a judge as you. It's too

informal, too buddy-buddy. Instead, it was always Your Honor, or the court. Even if that made for some

grammatically awkward sentences, yes, Your Honor, I'm aware of Your Honor's earlier ruling. You get

used to talking this way eventually. But any trial lawyer will tell you that judges do at times

lash out. Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're wrong. In my cases, of course, they were always wrong,

or almost always. But the courtroom is the judge's domain. As a lawyer, you mostly just steal yourself

and take it. But when Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schrader excoriated prosecutors during

the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, now that was something I hadn't seen before. The flash of unrestrained

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