Judge Jason Deal said a statement by defense attorney David Hoffer was in one respect an insightful way to explain how his client, Joshua Busby, was awaiting sentencing for abusing an 11-week-old infant. “I think Mr. Hoffer in his opening talked abut the institutional forces in your life, and that this case was about imperfect love and the poverty of your actions,” Deal said. “I wrote that down because I thought that was an eloquent way to talk about some of these things.”