[Avodah] Threats Against A Judge

[Ben Waxman]

I don't have my HM handy, but IIRC there is a way out if the judge is 
afraid. The judge does not have to accept a case if one of the sides is 
violent and he is fearful for his life. Once he accepts the case however, 
then the prohibition of lo taguru applies.

Ben

>> RZSero wrote:
>>> That's an explicit lav of "lo taguru".  As the Sifri says, "perhaps you
>>> will say I am afraid of so-and-so lest he kill my son, or burn my grain-
>>> stack, or chop down my trees".  There's no question that one may not
>>> give a false psak, and that this overrides pikuach nefesh...