I really like this Judge. He has been doing this long enough to notice when things are going downhill. He has an excellent sense of humor as well.
It probably doesn't take long for him to parse: "He raped her!" and "He should be forced to mediate!" into "We don't have a case!"
I don't think she thought her cunning plan all the way through... she was trying to argue I wanted mediation and that she could prove it - even though I was sitting there saying "no."
Mental gymnastics going into this case.
"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."
