Police: Judge fatally shot self after standoff near Miami
Source: Associated Press
Ellis Rua, Associated Press
Updated 1:50 pm CDT, Friday, August 24, 2018
MIAMI (AP) — A Social Security judge shot and killed himself after an hours-long standoff with police at a home southwest of Miami, authorities said Friday.
Miami-Dade Police said Timothy Maher, 50, a disability judge at a downtown Miami Social Security Administration office, held three hostages for about 10 hours Friday inside the home.
SWAT team members and police officers surrounded the home, barricading off various streets inside the residential community lined with manicured lawns and adobe-style homes.
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"I simply ask that you take a moment of consideration to think about who I am and what I do, and whether or not these charges sound like a federal judge with 10 years on the bench," Maher told the judge.
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...for all involved.
Legal profession is #11 on the suicide list ranked by profession. Sitting there every day, listening to the horrors, misdeeds, inhumanity, tales or sorrow and suffering...must have something to do with the fact that 33 percent drink problematically, and 28 percent suffer from depression.
https://www.drugrehab.com/addiction/common-professions/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/these-jobs-have-the-highest-rate-of-suicide/
Having served on a lot of juries, I've heard more than one judge say, "I think you don't deserve this sentence, but the law won't let me do anything else."
Cops are up there on both, too. Awful. 
