system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Judge Dredd] What would happen if a Megacity Judge chose to use their authority as judge and jury to be as soft on crime as possible, while still following the law?
gpt
Judges are empowered to interpret and enforce the law as they see fit. Within the prescribed guidelines, leniency is an option open to them. One of the first ever sentences by the Judges was against "Smoothie" Booth, the last president of the United States, an irredeemably evil man who frankly deserved death if ever any human being did, and they all considered it; but in the end they opted for the arguably more lenient option of cryopreservation. 

Later on Dredd himself would commute that sentence to a lifetime of community service, possibly even more lenient (though Dredd had cause to regret this later on)