Judge vs. Defendant

In my neck of the woods, a judge got into a shouting match with a defendant he's just sentenced. Watch it by clicking on the title, where you'll be connected to the KGW NewsChannel 8 link.

Clark County, Washington Superior judge John P. Wulle had just sentenced Matthew H. Hastings on four counts of attempted murder and two of second-degree assualt. Hastings was convicted last month of a 2007 shooting of a Vancouver SWAT officer, who was wounded, but has since returned to duty. The prosecution wanted to give Hastings 120 years, defense sought for a more lenient sentence of 90 years, but Hastings later became enraged and got into a shouting match- which is not what one want to do with a judge.

Hastings got the max, which means that if he lives long enough, he'll be 150 when he's released.

Judge Wulle said "Bye-bye" to Hastings. Serves that little pussy right.

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