Suddenly, prisons full of 'retarded'

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[Dutch Boy]

Once again trial lawyers helping the criminal while screwing the public.

[Steely Glint]

What's retarded is our pathethic "justice system."

Hang murderers high and let the vultures feed on them.

[Labyrinthos]

prisons full of 'retarded'

Sort of like Congress.

[Rodney King]

Funny. I thought retarded was un-PC. Aren't the reatarded just special now?

[Vaduz]

With a helping hand of the shrinks nice scam good money.

[TopQuark]

Once again trial lawyers helping the criminal while screwing the public.

Your anger is misdirected. The lawyer is ethically obligated to explore all defenses available --- for the person that is already prosecuted. This is different from enticing someone to start litigation.

Your anger should be directed at the proper target and not against what makes our legal system fair and stable.

[headsonpikes]

'Fair and stable' legal system bttt!

LOL!

[lewislynn]

Suddenly, prisons full of 'retarded'

As opposed to before when they were all Einsteins?

[solo gringo]

What we have is many retarded lawyers.

[VeniVidiVici]

...papers that he is retarded because he received low grades in school, has poorly developed "inner controls," is emotionally unstable, lacks the ability to think rationally, and has "sub-average" intelligence.

Well, heck. This describes 90% of the people on DU!

[SAJ]

At the proper target? And which target is that, pray tell?

[Not A Snowbird]

"...papers that he is retarded because he received low grades in school, has poorly developed "inner controls," is emotionally unstable, lacks the ability to think rationally, and has "sub-average" intelligence."

Gosh! Except for the "sub-average" intelligence piece, that describes most teenagers!

[Mark17]

With a helping hand of the shrinks nice scam good money.

A lot of it is a scam, so they can get SSI when they get out.

[dennisw]

Murderers who are retarded need to be executed same as other killers. I can't think of one dang reason why they should get preferential treatment

[Flyer]

In June 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for a retarded person to be executed

It did not take long for a burst of retardation claims to begin flowing from death-row inmates.

And I think many here predicted this exact outcome.

[TopQuark]

You can laugh all you want if you choose a shallow view. Our system is indeed fair and stable in comparison with everything else that exists in the world.

Someone made a misguided remark, to which I replied. Your reaction indicates that you are as misguided.

[TopQuark]

It's given in the previous post; I am sorry you missed that.

If one is agnered at the ambulance-chasers as abusers of the legal system, then they consitute a proper target.

The are multiple uses for the word "proper," you know. I mean, now you do.

[TopQuark]

I am really surpised at this remark: someone with a BA in logic, let alone math in general, should certainly deduce the meaning applied to "proper" in the context of the preceding post.

I wish you the best of success with your book. It has worldwide distribution, so hopefully it'll do well.

[headsonpikes]

It's not just the 'ambulance-chasers' that are at fault here.

What kind of thinking goes into the creation of legal codes and practices which allow, nay, encourage, this flouting of any reasonable sense of natural justice.

It's the lawyers, legislators, and judges who have created this state of affairs, certainly with no damage to their respective financial situations.

They are certainly the enablers of the cynical exploiters of the system, if nothing ese, and men of such intelligence ought to be held morally accountable for the deficiencies of the system which they have massaged into existence, a system at odds with the Constitution, natural justice, and American liberty.

Just because everything is done 'nice and legal' doesn't make it right.

IMO.