The Judge was not going to have his name associated with another race oriented riot and burning down of parts of L.A.. You can convict for capitol murder and send to jail or execute a black person in L.A. for killing 50 white people on film with a baseball bat one at a time while smiling for the camera and yelling racial epitaphs. But the moment you convict that black person for murdering those 50 white people as a race based hate crime, L.A. will be burnt to the ground as a group response.
That will be the only legacy that will go on the history books for that judge. How many times has L.A. been burned???????