What is the Judge’s ruling in the cases against Absalom and his two accomplices, Johannes and Matthew, and what are the Judge’s reasons for his verdicts?

The Judge lets Johannes and Matthew go completely free, because he does not believe there is enough evidence to place them at the crime scene, and even the beaten black servant’s fingering of Johannes as his assaulter does not hold up in the court. The Judge convicts Absalom of murder, claiming Absalom’s actions – housebreaking and carrying a deadly weapon – are enough to indicate violent intentions even if he did not premeditate the murder of Arthur Jarvis. For the same reason, the Judge finds he cannot show Absalom mercy and sentences him to hang.