Re “Judges can’t predict the future or ignore the law’’ (Opinion, Aug. 8): Hear, hear. May all reporters at the Globe and all in the public at large read Justice Gants’s remarks and remember that the work that trial judges and ADAs do on an everyday basis is fraught with unforeseen consequences. Balancing the dictates and intent of the law against a combustible set of incomplete facts, confronted in a cauldron of real-life fast-moving courtroom drama, sometimes results in imperfect decisions.

In short, life is complicated. Judges and ADAs don’t have the luxury of 20/20 hindsight. The takeaway is that it’s exceedingly easy to be a sheep and criticize a tragic result of a well-intentioned decision made by hard-working professionals, who in good faith try their best to do good the right way in an imprecise world in accordance with the dictates of their profession.

Patrick J. Daly

Cambridge