Everyone wants to hate the California legal system, but as states go, the sheer size of the state and its legal system is such that it becomes nearly impossible for any single group to totally control every court and every judge all of the time, so no single "club" has a handle on the entire court system there and if one club steps on the turf of another club in the wrong way, this sort of thing happens. Even among the judges, there are so many judges in California that if they start banding together on something, they are a force of their own.

What they tend not to like is getting lied to, but they tolerate it much more from the government side since that is considered "part of the club" until it reaches the point that it is so blatant and so obvious that the judges decisions will obviously not outlast their time on the bench and no judge like to be the one whose rulings and convictions are constantly overturned then get embroiled in some controversy over lying cops and witnesses. We don't even know the names of the judges involved, but among the judges in the cases that arose out of the LAPD Rampart Division cases where hundreds of prisoners were let go, there were several judges involved with those cases whose credibility was shot to hell when they continued to try and maintain the credibility of the system, and eventually they had no choice (it was self preservation0 but to throw it back on the police.

Lawyers in federal practice are always looking for reasons to disqualify a judge and toss a judge off the bench, so if a federal judge sees that coming, he or she will toss an FBI agent and prosecutor under the bus of illegitimacy any day of the week rather than face not just a hearing on removal from the bench but the disbarrment that can go along with it.

As much as a lot of people want to cry about Jewish conspiracies in the court systems, one element of it is true, Jewish people are overrepresented in the courts as lawyers and judges, but that also puts traditionally conservative Jewish religious law standards as an implied standard in the courts so there is a backdoor standard of religious legitimacy that goes hand in hand with legal actions that Jews participate in if they want to have any standing in the Jewish legal community. A judge habitually allowing that sort of thing and with a name like Matz would likely see not just him, but his entire family shunned from the local Jewish community if some lawyers started complaining loudly to the Rabbis about how the judge was allowing Nazi style court proceedings.

I have met people where that sort of thing started happening, they were seen at some pro-Palestinian rally in the SF bay area, and whammo, the lady's kids were denied visas to enter Israel, which meant they got booted from some special school for being unable to complete one of the programs that required part of the study to be done there, which meant that the entire family suffered a level of shunning from the Jewish community.

In that court case, it looks to me like a situation of skilled corporate lawyers getting things done for their client, while a group of shifty feds were trying to squeeze some rich folks running a corporation on some nuances of foreign trade law which few people are fully versed in or make sense of.

I hate to sound racist about it, but I am seeing that sort of thing with the socially promoted shall we say, affirmative action appointment, types who got into the legal profession and were given positions in the government where they think any prosecution can be run "ghetto style" in order to "get the bad guys" but there is a difference between enforcing some fairly plain and clear rape, robbery, and dope dealing laws on ghetto thugs and corporate law on people who are trying to get things done legally but run into government red tape and political reality which blocks progress unless effectively dealt with.

Only some fairly wealthy people are going to be able to press the level of defense that happened in that case, but the level of government thuggery in using the prison system to financially squeeze folks and still cheat the game is telling on how the FBI and their cohorts expect to be allowed to act when it is just a financial matter. That's why I pretty much refuse to believe it when they claim they "can't do anything" on those terrorism cases without new laws and powers. There is very little not already being done in regular cases.