Jace, you'd find support for your viewpoint in "The Gotti Wars," by John Gleeson, the prosecutor in Gotti's last trial. And, yes, Judge Glasser definitely favored the prosecution, The book provides perfect examples of the adversarial nature of trial law. I reviewed it here:
http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1037134#Post1037134
On the other hand, Bruce Cutler walked all over Judge Nickerson in Gotti's 1987 racketeering trial (he was acquitted). And Roy Cohn, the highest-powered, most ruthless lawyer of his day, won for Gotti a sweetheart plea-bargain in the McBratney murder--an open-and-shut Murder One--he served all of two years.