There are two sides to every story and listening to both sides being argued won't hurt anyone or cause the sky to come crashing down over BM.
We heard it. His defense was basically, "He was just so bad, how could I not insult him?"
That's not a valid defense, so anything further was really pretty unnecessary.
There could just be one person making these decisions behind the scenes, but presumably the purpose of the Magistrate forum is to ensure that both sides are heard.
Sure. Heard. We heard him.
The purpose is
not to make sure that both sides get equal time. As ^ban^ said, the idea that the two sides of every issue deserve equal time is an abhorrent fallacy propagated by far too much of Western media.