Posted on 10/11/2013 7:19:16 AM PDT by CondorFlight
The Supreme Court this week refused to hear an appeal from the Duke lacrosse players stemming from the false accusations of rape in Durham in 2006. Effectively, that ends their civil rights lawsuit, and precludes their ever having a day in court in which their full stories may be told.
And that in itself provides a paradigm of the state of justice in America today.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Nancy “helmet head” Grace is pleased.
Corrupt American judicial system.
The new America.
End of story.
There is only one resort; to make a movie, and write a book of the same name.
One of the few things they have to be grateful for is the case happened before Obama was Prez. The way these boys were treated is one of the great injustices of the past several years.
Ping. This stinks.
If you’re expecting justice from any government on the planet you’ll be sorely disappointed. Just look how they treated the Son if God and you’ll know who’s in charge down here.
There are two nations within our borders. There is The United States of America and there is Democratland.
You won’t find justice in a Courtroom. I’m a lawyer. See my tagline.
I’m taking classes to become a paralegal. The more I study it, though, the more inclined I am to quit and look for honest work.
OK, I think I could work in the criminal justice side, but civil law has been twisted beyond belief, and the courts regularly reject any honest interpretation of the law to justify whatever they want the outcome to be.
And there is no meaningful enforcement of ethical rules because the foxes guard the hen house and never seem to notice the dead hens...
Gee, thanks. This is the most depressing article that I’ve read in a long time. (I often read Radley Balko’s articles at HuffPo, so you know that would be a pretty high hurdle.)
As a friend corrected me several years ago, “The US doesn’t have a justice system; it has a legal system. There’s a big difference between the two.”
Confidence in government, including the courts, is in steady decline. If present trends continue, the rule of law will become the rule of power and force. The people will only submit to greater force and the law of the street will become standard.
Umm, the rule of law has always been about power and force. Just under "the law," the use of that force and power is supposed to be rational, even-handed, and justified.
I guess I should have said it more bluntly: The rule of law will be favored groups and individuals win based on that and those who are a pain to the power structure are locked up, shot or disappeared.
That’s why the lady with the scales and blindfold carries a sword.
That’s the truth, Truth.
There is a columnist in the Boston Herald, Howie Carr.
One of his favorite lines, “In the Halls of Justice, the ONLY Justice is found out in the halls.”
I used to laugh at that, now I find it was accurate all along. Ain’t funny!!
Civil court is 2 lawyers fighting with each other until all your money is gone.
Then they settle it and go to lunch together.
Charles Dicken's novel about the British civil court (Court of Chancery) system was named "Bleak House" for a reason. "Jarndyce v Jarndyce" is a synonym for unrelenting lawyering that exhausts both time and money for an ultimately useless results!
It seems that nowadays, the only way to get justice is to get a baseball bat and apply what Evel Knievel called “frontier justice.’
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