Why did you tell the defendant to seek psychiatric help so this tragedy doesn't occur again?
She was upset.
Because it sounds like you think she really did poison her daughter.
It was a mistake! Is that what you want me to say, Miss Novak?! One mistake in almost 3 decades on the bench?!
Didn't you make another arguably bigger mistake when you wrongfully convicted Rosalin Silvo of murdering her daughter and sent her to prison for 10 years?!!
That's a totally separate issue, and completely immaterial to this case!
You can't object, Judge Taft.
But I can, Miss Novak. Get back to the case at hand.
Did you tell Karen Campbell to suffocate her daughter?
Absolutely not.
But you talked to her even though it was clearly improper.
It was a mistake!
You don't make mistakes, though. You make judgments! Who's innocent, who's guilty! You saw Rosalin Silvo, and she was a whore. That means she's a bad mother. And then you saw Karen Campbell. Why did you talk to her, judge?!
[to Judge Bradley] Your Honor!
Why talk to Karen Campbell?! Why talk to a woman that tried to murder her daughter?!
I didn't know!
Didn't know what?! That she'd turn around and try to do it again?!
I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOOD PEOPLE!!
[bangs gavel] That's enough! Miss Novak, try that again, and you're in contempt. [to Judge Taft] Sir, you will be, as well, if you don't sit down. Now.
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