theBishop said:The judge's decision:
Is an "activist" judgment in my opinion. It is common for someone to be required to be "gainfully employed" as a term for their parole. What business is it of anyone if he is gainfully employed speaking Spanish or English?
Since this is a town in Pensylvania, rather than, say, Texas, I'm assuming that learning English is pretty much a neccesity for really intigrating into society there.
The guys deserve to go to jail, and he DID sentance them to jail, but he also made them a seperate offer which is an outline of how to get their lives back on track.
If he hadn't made the offer at all, things would be fine, and if he made the offer, but english wasn't a part of it, things would be fine, but him mentioning english (for a TOTALLY legit reason) makes everything wrong?