If that is the case, then it was one very smart judge! Lawyers are not so easily duped, but it is possible.
This gets back to the theory that motion is impossible. Since before you can run 100 yards, you must run 50, and before 50, 25, etc. Such that in order to move at all, you must pass an infinite number of points in what amounts to no time.
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Very good Puzzle! IN the end, the judge had them checkmated. Ignorant, and he could be hung any day. Knowledgeable, the same things since he knew he would not hang.