Willis, TX H.S. student, Diane Tran, age 17, was sentenced to jail by Judge Lanny Moriarity for truancy. Tran a H.S. honors student has to work two jobs in addition to going to school. The divorce of her parents has forced her to support her older college student brother and a younger sister. She sometimes missed “roll call” by a few minutes, due to lack of sleep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eJrKi0jKao
The judge indicated he did not want to appear “soft.” So he has ruled to give this poor girl an arrest record, which will scar her for life.
Perhaps this is a good time to comment on judges in the USA. Is it this way worldwide? I have no proof, but it used to be said that $50,000 and a membership in a secret society—Freemasons and others—buys you an entry level judgeship. With inflation, perhaps that fee has now doubled. Of course, all the crooked dealings on the side, gets the new judge back his money.
And the more corrupt his/her rulings, the higher up the new judge can go.