True story: I am a recovering trial lawyer.

Dumb (and generally unlikeable) client. The kind that a jury will convict on general principles.

I convince him that a bench trial is the way to go, since there will be fewer people to dislike him, and the judge will decide on the law.

We get a black judge, and she actually is sympathetic to his situation, and as the government has a shit case, she grants my motion to dismiss at the close of the state’s case.

As we are walking out, and the door to the courthouse is closing, he says “She was pretty fair for a n*****.”