When a Courtroom Grows Quiet: Reflections on Judgment, Accountability, and the Weight of Justice
There are moments in public life that are remembered not for what was said, but for what was not. In one such moment, inside a courtroom designed for order and procedure, sound itself seemed to recede. The delivery of a final judgment—anticipated, debated, analyzed—arrived not with drama, but with an unmistakable stillness. Observers later struggled…