‘Look at the Scriptures, Magistrate! They tell you to pass a genuinely chastising sentence before you get to your clemency predilection! But how can I persuade you to rule more people guilty? If I, the lowly Albornoz, can solve that riddle, my reward will be assured in Heaven.’That night, his sleep was broken as his thoughts grappled with the dilemma facing him, and he woke early, still mightily troubled and without an answer. Then, like a revelation from the Kingdom of the Lord, came a stratagem, a way ahead. Sitting bolt upright in his bed, he spoke, the four walls his only audience.
"All the hearings I have attended have resulted in the accused being either acquitted or handed down a token sentence. This is by virtue of the Magistrate’s belief in rehabilitation and restorative justice.
