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I went to court; I wanted to see Mr. McCallum walk out of there.
So I went to court, and the judge said something that judges say all the time, but this took on a really special meaning.
In 1994, when the genocide ended, Rwanda's national court system was in shambles: no judges, no lawyers to try hundreds of thousands of genocide cases.
After about three months of detention, the North Korean court sentenced me to 12 years in a labor camp.
And what we faced was the wholesale violation, not just of human rights, but all the way to ethnic cleansing and genocide, and that has been adjudicated in the highest war crimes court in the world.
When the supreme court decriminalized homosexuality, an LGBTQ collection was waiting on our home page.
You could not proceed without making this negotiation between one's own values and the relationship of the character you're working with and how he understands the court, because I'm showing him, of course, Corbusier at Savoy, which is 1928, which is the beginning of modern architecture.
The case is going to court.
"Ma'am, did you know that was a light you just ran?" (Spanish) "You don't speak English?" "No." (Laughter) But eventually, every dog has its day, and she ended up in traffic court, where she bartered with the judge for a discount.
I can assure you, in most court cases, no amount of marks is ever enough.
That was said to me by a transgender prostitute who before I had gotten on the bench had fired her public defender, insulted the court officer and yelled at the person sitting next to her, "I don't know what you're looking at.
First, they're annoyed as they're probed going through court security.
They finally get through court security, they walk around the building, they ask different people the same question and get different answers.
What would you think if I told you that you could improve people's court experience, increase their compliance with the law and court orders, all the while increasing the public's trust in the justice system with a simple idea?
Begins with how judges speak to court participants.
But it also gives them an opportunity to share something with the court that goes beyond their criminal record and their charges.
It is critical that court participants understand the process, the consequences of the process and what's expected of them.
So I speak plain English in court.
You see, once people understand the question, they can give you valuable information that allows the court to make meaningful decisions about the cases that are before them.
After sitting comfortably for seven months as a traffic court judge, I was advised that I was being moved to the criminal court, Part Two, criminal courtroom.
Fortunately, the City of Newark decided that Newarkers deserved better, and they partnered with the Center for Court Innovation and the New Jersey Judiciary to create Newark Community Solutions, a community court program that provided alternative sanctions.
When he came up, he said, "Judge, I came back to court because you showed me more love than I had for myself."
Because the reality is that when the court behaves differently, then naturally people respond differently.
The court becomes a place you can go to for assistance, like the 60-something-year-old schizophrenic homeless woman who was in distress and fighting with the voices in her head, and barges into court, and screams, "Judge!
On this day she needed help, and she came to court.
People become connected to their community when the court changes, like the 50-something-year-old man who told me, "Community service was terrible, Judge.
It helps the court reset its relationship with the community, like with the 20-something-year-old guy who gets a job interview through the court program.
He gets a job interview at an office cleaning company, and he comes back to court to proudly say, "Judge, I even worked in my suit after the interview, because I wanted the guy to see how bad I wanted the job."
In 132 CE, Chinese polymath Zhang Heng presented the Han court with his latest invention.
The court was somewhat skeptical, especially when the device triggered on a seemingly quiet afternoon.
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