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The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system
Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.
Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.
The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.
before a jury. It takes time: time to
The long arm of the law ends in the pimp hand of justice.
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.
Crimes spring from fixed ideas.
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.
There is a statue of limitation.
We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.
The presumption of innocent until proven guilty has been overshadowed by the presumption of guilty until proven wealthy
Justice is like a great home cooked meal; it may not come at the ideal time, but when it does it is served and delicious.
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
ministry of justice
Jurisdictie Prudentia :
Important : Legislation and Jurisdiction :
Justice conform : "Prudentia".
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Babaji
September 20, 2016
the details of every legal proceeding
The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.
Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.
I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.
Civilizations in decline are notable when certain of their members escape justice, and do so with impunity.
Let us be tried by our actions.
I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.
If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.
The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
Choices and consequences. Choices and consequences.
Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.
Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The
Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime
Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.
Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.
A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.
Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
The business of government is justice.
People imprison themselves.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Until all titles are taken away
Events are finally obscure forever
You wake and wonder
Whose case history you composed
As your confessions are filed
In the dialect
Of bureaux and electrons
Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.
absolute silence of the courtroom,
In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.
People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
the punishment inflicted for these peccadilloes.
Guilty until proven innocent
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An eye for an eye.Eye-- Belle Aurora
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.
Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.
The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.
A criminal was already lost
by lost anger and frustration.
Petra Hermans
Babaji
September 25, 2016
Amen
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
A society gets the criminals it deserves.
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
Crimes often come in pairs.
In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Traces of a crime need to be coaxed out, not rushed.
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
More law, less justice.
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for allowing the terrible facts to be sunk deep in the memory hole. All of this is of great significance, as it has been in the past.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
Even the wettest violence, in the end, is cooked down to the stuff of court cases; a ream of paper, a few exhibits, a dozen ... witnesses. The world looks away, and why not?
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
The whole world is a court case ... and we're all ... defendants.
One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.
Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.
The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.
Commission for Justice and Peace
deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong.
Justice by any and all means necessary.
An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.