The kids were a foil, a shield that he could throw up to a sympathetic federal judge.
A sympathetic judge permitted her to bring up the child.
On his side, Rudy has several supporters and a sympathetic newly-appointed judge.
He is saved by a sympathetic judge and a loving adoptive family.
And then maybe I get a sympathetic judge, or judges, and they give me a break.
Her statement was well prepared, and she had a sympathetic judge on the bench.
Others said the American lawyers who filed the suit were looking for a sympathetic judge.
A sympathetic judge merely bound the squatters over to good behaviour.
He'd need a sympathetic judge to make it stand up in court, but he happened to know where he could find one of those.
A sympathetic judge Graham sentences the two men to a day in jail.
