Plain Dealer should not have revealed identity of judge
Robin I.
When you write into a newspaper or forum that guarantees your comment or post will be completely anonymous, they should hold their up their end of the deal. Obviously the Plain Dealer had some animosity toward the judge and the paper saw this as a way to get back at her. Tracking down who wrote a comment to use as a way to get back at someone when you guarantee in the first place that all comments will be anonymous is unethical and wrong.
Through anonymity you are giving citizens their right to freedom of speech and the safety they need to express it to the public. The safety is by far the biggest concern anyone has when writing into something that is going to be made public. The judge’s words should have been kept private and her name should never have been made public. The newspaper, I feel is completely in the wrong and there is no excuse for them to have made it known who made the comment.
JurisFiction 
I completely agree. There are many site that give people the ability to speak freely through privacy, and anonymity. Ie, Facebook with their honesty box application, and many others. When people are given the opportunity to speak anonymously they feel me apt to speak freely, and given that they revealed this individual’s identity completely went against her 1A right to freedom of speech
JaKeshia Moore
May 4, 2010 at 1:36 pm