How can a judge applying the law be described as corrupt?

I published a video yesterday about a guy being acquitted in the District Court on a drink driving charge.

The Judge applied the law and found that the blood sample on which the prosecution was relying could not be admitted into evidence. Because the motorist should also have been given the chance to give a urine sample at the time of taking of the blood sample.

The blood sample showed the guy was 4 times over the drink driving limit.

But he was acquitted because there was, from a legal perspective, no evidence that could be relied upon.

Many commenters on my YouTube channel, and elsewhere, were angry and frustrated at the outcome of the case. I understand this.

A minority recognised that the judge simply applied the law, as enacted by the Oireachtais. The consequence was acquittal and the case being thrown out.

The vast majority, however, commented that this was another fine example of corruption in the legal system, post code justice, a brown envelope had to have changed hands, the judge knew the guy etc. etc.

The usual conspiracy theory nonsense, in other words.

It is frightening that so many people are willing to jump to a conclusion based on their own misinformed view of the world rather rely on the evidence and facts before their very eyes.

The same people, faced with a choice of a conspiracy or a cock up will always choose, with unerring consistency, the conspiracy theory.

A judge applying the law in this, or any, case is the antithesis of corruption.

A judge applying the law is how the justice system should work.

Yet the vast majority of comments cried ‘foul’ and corruption.

I despair sometimes.