-: You know, day to day, I mean sometimes in a case
where you're sentencing somebody
and you realize that perhaps the requested sentence
is just not necessary.
Perhaps, it should be a bit, it should be lower
or significantly lower
where you feel like you can see some potential
and you wanna give somebody, in essence, a second chance.
I also derive some pleasure or a fair amount of pleasure
from trying cases and making sure
that each side is treated fairly and respectfully
and that their evidence, if it should come in, does,
and if it shouldn't come in, it does not.
Well, there are things that you have to do
that you know the parties are gonna be disappointed in.
Usually when you rule,
there's one party that's somewhat happy
and one that's significantly disappointed,
and so you understand that
for both civil litigants and criminal cases,
this piece of litigation may be the most important thing
that they have in their life
at that particular time,
and you know, based on your ruling,
someone's going to be very, very disappointed.
In other instances when you're sentencing somebody
in a criminal case, I mean it might be a lengthy sentence,
but without regard to whether it's lengthy
or even you think it may be short,
to them it's not short.
To them, a matter of months or years
is a very long period of time.
But the law requires what it requires,
and so when you impose the sentence that should be imposed,
you know that there are gonna be some people
in the courtroom that are gonna be very, very disappointed.