Hanging Judge: Difference between revisions

** [[Up to Eleven|Even worse]] was Gaius Verres, who had been praetor of Sicily. First of all, he extorted so much loot, slaves and capital from Sicily that some have estimated that he actually caused a recession ''[[Beyond the Impossible|on his own]]''. His handling of corn and grain harvesting was so poor parts of Italy starved and he nearly ended up with a slave revolt. Anyone who confronted him he put on trial for treason or espionage where he was the judge and jury, and sentenced them to death. He was discredited in a case by Marcus Tullius Cicero, where it was revealed that he had sentenced Roman knights to death without trial, in one instance in order to disguise his own corrupt dealings with a gang of pirates (and sexual slavers). The Romans considered this to be a [[Moral Event Horizon]]. You will be pleased to hear that he was eventually murdered on the orders of Mark Antony, who [[Karmic Death|wanted some of the art treasures he had thieved from Sicily.]]

* Laurence J. Rittenband, the judge who presided over the Roman Polanski case. Say what you want about Polanski, but to say that Rittenband had a squeaky-clean image compared to Polanski, would be one of the most ridiculous things said. He was into girls much younger than the ones Polanski was into for crying out loud!

 

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