Posted on 11/30/2021 3:37:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Rittenhouse case shows that there needs to be social consequences for prosecutorial overreach even if the overreach does not violate the ABA's Rules of Professional Conduct.
Although our legal system finally worked as designed with Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal for shooting at four assailants, our society cannot move forward without condign legal and/or public relations consequences for everybody involved. This case underscores an extremely dangerous practice, which dates back to the Salem witch trials if not before, of putting people on trial to pander to lynch mobs or their equivalents. Prosecutors, especially those with political ambitions, will latch on to socially popular issues such as fear of witches in the seventeenth century or sex crimes and racially-charged controversies today. Examples include:
-The Amirault sexual abuse case ruined people's lives on the basis of, among other things, "evidence" involving sinister robots, "magic rooms," and "secret rooms," none of which were ever found, and sexual abuse with a butcher knife that somehow inflicted no injuries. The case was prosecuted by Scott Harshbarger (D-MA), and Martha Coakley (D-MA) later lobbied to keep the Amiraults in prison. Harshbarger was nonetheless elected President of the Massachusetts Association of District Attorneys and given an award by the ABA for "outstanding work in Juvenile Justice" if that is what the ABA calls the Amirault prosecutions.
-Janet Reno (D-FL) got police officer Grant Snowden sent to prison on spurious child abuse charges, only to have the conviction overturned.
-Mike Nifong (D-NC) was disbarred for his conduct in the Duke Lacrosse case.
-Prosecutors charged a man for shooting another man who is on video reaching through his car's window to grab his steering wheel and punch him during a Black Lives Matter demonstration.
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Whatever needs to be done; it needs to be severe and done in public to send a message to other potential monsters.
The entire legal profession needs serious changes. One small example: If you listen to the radio in your car you likely hear at least one commercial per day by a law firm fishing for participants in class action suits (e.g. ‘If you or a loved one have used product x and are now suffering from disease y, you may be entitled to compensation’). Attorneys can become very wealthy from class action lawsuits, while ‘winning’ the many participating clients a pittance, and often screwing over a company whose product is actually good and not the cause of ‘disease y’.
Prosecutorial immunity needs to be done away with.
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The Rittenhouse case underscores an extremely dangerous practice, which dates back to the Salem witch trials if not before, of putting people on trial to pander to lynch mobs or their equivalents.
Prosecutors, especially those with political ambitions, latch on to socially popular issues such as fear of witches in the seventeenth century or sex crimes and racially-charged controversies today.
Contact Congress
U.S. House of Representatives: * Telephone: 202-225-3121 * Website: http://www.house.gov/
U.S. Senate: * Telephone: 202-224-3121 * Website: http://www.senate.gov/
Demand Congress ACT NOW.
This does not even include all the political prosecutions without consequence.
I agree. The left has gotten so bold that they will go after a conservative president of the USA.
Reminds me of the Nifong basket case... So many of these parasitic losers out there attracted to the prosecution office like pedophiles to teaching positions in kid schools
Oh yeah. They always try to portrait their poster boys as some under age victim, and the usage of Greta Thumberg to influence adults, as if children were beyond reproach as witnesses, is all that Salem was all about.
Also Salem was a case of a loser who envied successful neighbors.
In the prosecution of the three white guys who chased and killed a potential black burglar while making a citizens arrest in ga the original prosecuter was indicted for not charging the white guys. See it does work for white on black crimes but not the other way. Ga went so far as to remove the citizens arrest statute. Ya see it MAY have had its origins in runaway slave times. No one considered its origins had to do with common law.
So many prosecutors commit misconduct precisely because the appellate courts almost always let them get away with it. There are various reasons the courts give for letting prosecutors get away with it, but only one message sent to prosecutors: you can get away with it.
Not all prosecutors commit misconduct, but many do. The bad ones have learned from the appellate courts what they can get away with, and they can get away with a lot.
If the courts started reversing convictions the misconduct would evaporate immediately. But they have not and will not.
People do not understand how gamed out the entire system has become, in every respect. Our constitutional rights have disappeared because they have been gamed out of existence.
Our system consequently lacks a spirit of justice and honesty. Our system is a system of gamesmanship, covered by pretty words. That is a system where the government wins against the people, unless the people are wealthy, or belong to a favored group.
Kyle Rittenhouse was duly acquitted by a jury of his peers. Double jeopardy prevents him from being tried again for the same offense. If the prosecutors didn’t violate the ABA code, I’m not sure what consequences we could assign them, other than social shunning. Was that what you meant or am I missing something?
Like what the Cancel Culture does to Conservatives....
Lynching comes to mind in the absence of actual legal consequences.
I don’t things will change until you can figure out how to exclude lawyers from the process.
Everyone he does business with could abuse their position. Think, doctor, auto repair, plumber...
Look at what the cancel culture and doxxers do to conservatives who are upstanding people. Twenty times more should not be too much fro a leftist scumbag.
Bingman needs to be charged with brandishing for his stupid stunt in the courtroom.
Maybe the police that he disdains could do a SWAT raid to arrest him for brandishing. Just like the FIB does to conservatives for contrived offenses. Have FOX News there with cameras rolling when they strip search him in front of his neighbors.
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