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Post by josephdphillips on Feb 8, 2015 17:40:11 GMT -6
Again, irrelevant. There's the dictionary definition, which is impossibly vague, and criminal justice, which of necessity cannot be. A criminal court is not the place to find fairness. Its officers are human, and as such cannot be fair. The conclusion of a trial is always a compromise between the pursuit of truth and the need to push cases through the grinder.
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Post by bernard on Feb 8, 2015 18:38:42 GMT -6
Again, irrelevant. There's the dictionary definition, which is impossibly vague, and criminal justice, which of necessity cannot be. That's the definition from a legal dictionary. If you have a better definition of "justice", from a more authoritative legal source, I am happy to surrender to it. Just provide the link.
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Post by fuglyville on Mar 3, 2015 17:46:30 GMT -6
Again, irrelevant. There's the dictionary definition, which is impossibly vague, and criminal justice, which of necessity cannot be. A criminal court is not the place to find fairness. Its officers are human, and as such cannot be fair. The conclusion of a trial is always a compromise between the pursuit of truth and the need to push cases through the grinder. That's the crucial problem in the U.S. criminal justice system. The "tough on crime" *bullcrap* is one of the reasons American criminal justice has failed and will continue to fail, but the chances that someone will actually do anything about it is too much to hope for.
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Post by josephdphillips on Mar 3, 2015 18:18:37 GMT -6
That's the crucial problem in the U.S. criminal justice system. The "tough on crime" *bullcrap* is one of the reasons American criminal justice has failed and will continue to fail, but the chances that someone will actually do anything about it is too much to hope for. Keeping one's promises to criminals shows success, not failure. We don't put criminals in prison. THEY do that all by themselves.
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nate
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Post by nate on Apr 2, 2015 17:48:59 GMT -6
The whole case was and probably is tainted.
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