WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR LEGAL SYSTEM???
Yes, I’m shouting on purpose.
There is something seriously wrong with the legal system in this country. We bend over backwards to protect the “rights” of offenders. What about the victims? The legal system takes a victim and further victimizes him/her by putting her through the agony of a trial, and then vitimizes her again by letting the perp go free.
Society in general becomes victimized by this. It makes us all feel less safe and degrades the quality of our lives. Where are victim’s rights and society’s rights? Why are they trumped by the “rights” of the guilty?
A stunned Sheboygan County district attorney said Thursday he will seek to appeal Circuit Judge Timothy Van Akkeren's decision overturning a man's conviction for trying to entice a 9-year-old girl into a park shelter to have sex.
Van Akkeren made his ruling just minutes after the jury handed down its guilty verdict Wednesday,
Who is this Judge to overturn a juries decision before the defense has even filed an appeal.
For a Judge he does not seem to have much respect for our system of justice.
There had to be a preliminary hearing where a judge had to think there was sufficient evidence to send the case to a Grand Jury.
There had to be a Grand Jury that thought there was sufficient evidence to send the case to trial.
Then at last there had to be a Jury of the man’s peers who thought that this piece of Offal was guilty of trying to lure this young girl to a place where he could rape her.
This Judge obviously has no respect for our system of justice and believes that he is above the system and he alone can decide guilt or innocence.
He should be removed from the bench and given a mop with which he can clean up the court house. He has made a mess of it.
I’ve been thinking about this since the ‘80’s when I learned there is a college major called Criminal Justice and that’s where those interested in a Law Enforcement career are to study.
Criminal Justice? Criminals are getting all the justice, IMO. How about VICTIM Justice, huh?