alt Hacker NewsWeird. I have seen a bunch of people repeating that quote, but not a single source for the full court transcript. Court transcript are public record, available for request by anyone. So it's real strange no one seems to have a source reference, no? Did you read the transcript? Happen to have a reference?
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Interesting point. The quote appears to be the defense attorney's interpretation of the judge's statements.
https://scnr.com/article/hobby-gunsmith-in-nyc-convicted-aft...
IMO, it depends on the events in court; if there was extensive argumentation about that and the judge is finally saying that it's been discussed to death and there's no point bringing it up, that seems fine. (I don't want to read the actual court transcripts to figure out what the attorney is referring to, so this comment is intentionally inconclusive.)
Me either, that's why I replied opened endedly since I didn't have the full context.