lucy24 - 12:24 am on Sep 27, 2012 (gmt 0)

I didn't mean care morally or emotionally. I meant, does the judge know or care whether the arrestee can have had personal responsibility in the act he's being arrested for? Not like "I wasn't there", which has to be proved in court. More like arresting the mayor because the city council did something illegal, without first finding out what the legal relationship is between the two. (I picked this example because in the US it can go either way-- but within any given city it's one way or the other.)