have a sit in on court sometime,  it can be nuts.  You'll see many mexicans walk while blacks and whites get insane judgements for the same exact crimes.     Used to be able to go in and talk to the judge like a man and come to a reasonable conclusion.  Now it all goes through a DA and the judge just approves or does their own thing.    I've seen mexicans go in for assualt and stalking with a list of priors, judge responds with oh you poor thing she didn't like you? you dont understand english? oh here's a fine. meanwhile a white guy with a first offense with just stalking gets yelled at by the same judge, fined and ordered to jail for 90 days.  you normally get 30 days to report to jail to get your affairs in order from what I've seen.  I have family that works in the courts and i used to go and sit down to watch the cases,  I stopped as i got sick of how it's turned.