Call It Doubling Down, my friends...

What do you call what Judge Emmet Sullivan is doing to General Flynn by not accepting that when the prosecutor drops charges, and the defense accepts, the role of the judge is then over?

No friends of the courts briefs get submitted in criminal cases, dropped ones or not. 

What is going on in DC and in our media? The Flynn prosecution as Rashomon movie; every viewer sees what he wants to see...