Before you ask, I don't know the partisan makeup of the players involved here, and at least for the moment I'm not sure it's important. Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. mainly handles family-type cases. We don't know if he was ambushed by someone who was upset by one of his rulings, but we do know that this turned out to be a good-guy-with-a-gun scenario.
Judge Bruzzese was prepared: