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Now, I'm going to say something controversial, even though I'm being taped, juries get it wrong a lot. That's my own opinion. I do only civil trials, personal injury cases, contract disputes. But I've had situations where I'm like, "Oh, my heaven's sake. How could they have thought that?" Well, I have a tool that I can deal with that. It's called judgment notwithstanding the verdict. I can say there is no possible way that a reasonable jury would have reached that conclusion. All right, am I following the law or am I making law? Okay, I'm following law, I'm an impartial referee, but it's hard to factor out my own emotions and I have tools. Somebody can say, "Well, Your Honor, you have to throw out this case because it's just like another case." Well, is it just like another case? What if the defendant was wearing a red sweater instead of a blue sweater? Oh, and by the way, I worked for the Columbia Daily Spectator for a couple of weeks. What happened was I went there every day and I wrote a few stories, one I got criticized on because I wrote that some Ku Klux Klaners had murdered some people and then I was told, "You can't say that. How do we know? You weren't there." Well, that was what everybody thought. Anyway, yeah, we should have absolute immunity. What if we defame somebody? That's how it usually comes up, you know, you call somebody a murderer or a heroin addict, that sort of thing, a pedophile. And if it's done in court, yeah, I think we should have absolute immunity.
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