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  1. Wombat's avatar
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    Wombat says:

    What is depressing is that justice won’t be done but a lengthy trial will be. The public outrage is just as much about the failings of the legal system as it is about this particular case. Why won’t he have a fair trial? The facts will be presented to the jury, two lawyers will present a factual and relevant account of the incident and the Judge will sentence according to the severity of the crime and with consideration of the maximum penalties imposed by Parliament.What am I dreaming? I meant to say a Jury whose make up will be vetted by the defence to give them the best chance of an acquittal. No attempt at seeking the truth will be made. Every minuscule insane rule of law will be examined to acquit the guilty. Two pompous lawyers will engage in a battle of ego and will. The Judge may fall asleep but the Judiciary will not find that a problem. The sentence will be a fraction of what the Parliament has set as the maximum. The defendants long history of violence will not be made known to the jury – that might influence them to think he really is not a nice person. A pitiful sentence will be handed down. Once inside he will be schooled on how to beat the parole board and suck in every social worker and get the maximum remittance on his sentence. Then on release he will break parole but then not held be accountable. Some one tell me I am wrong

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    thermio says:

    This is the conundrum. Place faith in a system that has proven to be inadequate, change the system but reduce the rights of the potentially innocent or remove the system and let justice occur naturally. I for one am undecided, although lean towards any system in which victims of crime are treated with more respect than perpetrators. This is however by no means a new issue, if you have not done so I would suggest reading Johnathan Swift’s, Gulliver’s Travels. The conversations the titular character has with the Houyhnhnm reveals how deeply flawed the system has been since the re-establishment of public courts in the renaissance, the chapter from the book is here: http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/jswift/bl-jswift-gull-4-5.htm.

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