Is it just me, or has some poor innocent done gone and conflated 'the law" with 'justice'? They two concepts are mutually exclusive except through occasional happy accident. The purpose of the law is to maintain the status quo,period.
I'm aware of no county on earth which has a justice system. There are only legal systems with varying degrees of incompetence,indifference and corruption.
We ( say the US,Australia and the UK) have an adversarial system. The opposing sides allegedly have access to the same evidence, yet argue opposite conclusions. Court case are debates,with no interest in truth or justice, but only that which can be proved under often absurd rules of evidence. (look up 'probable cause' and 'poisonous fruit')
It is completely unsurprising to me that the wealthy are often acquitted or receive grossly reduced sentences. Most of the poor take plea bargains. If they did not,and opted for trials, our entire legal system would stop functioning.
Thought for the day
I'm aware of no county on earth which has a justice system. There are only legal systems with varying degrees of incompetence,indifference and corruption.
We ( say the US,Australia and the UK) have an adversarial system. The opposing sides allegedly have access to the same evidence, yet argue opposite conclusions. Court case are debates,with no interest in truth or justice, but only that which can be proved under often absurd rules of evidence. (look up 'probable cause' and 'poisonous fruit')
It is completely unsurprising to me that the wealthy are often acquitted or receive grossly reduced sentences. Most of the poor take plea bargains. If they did not,and opted for trials, our entire legal system would stop functioning.
Thought for the day
Quote:A Liberal is a conservative who has just been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who has just been mugged (anon)
