Is the US justice system dead?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:39 am
Is the US justice system dead?
Perhaps things have always been this way and I am just now starting to see it. As another section of what made The Untied States of America a great nation is destroyed.
It seems these days from Law enforcement officials to judges that the rules and laws that should be followed are now nothing more than meaningless words on a piece of paper. Much like tyrants that make and break laws to suit their selfish whims.
In this case it disturbs me greatly that that the government (government appointed judges) can simply ignore the verdict/decision of the jury and declare guild or innocence of the defendant based on what the judges believes verdict should be.
This is truly scary as it means that when a jury finds a person not guilty (for instance because of blatantly trumped up or false charges) that the judge can overrule that verdict and still sentence the defendant as if they had been found guilty.
On the other it could mean that if the jury should find a government employee guilty of premeditated murder the judge can simply find the government defendant not guilty.
These are truly scary times.
For when there is no justice or laws that apply to and are enforced on everyone equally, there is no longer a healthy society it is just a fight for survival.
Perhaps things have always been this way and I am just now starting to see it. As another section of what made The Untied States of America a great nation is destroyed.
It seems these days from Law enforcement officials to judges that the rules and laws that should be followed are now nothing more than meaningless words on a piece of paper. Much like tyrants that make and break laws to suit their selfish whims.
In this case it disturbs me greatly that that the government (government appointed judges) can simply ignore the verdict/decision of the jury and declare guild or innocence of the defendant based on what the judges believes verdict should be.
This is truly scary as it means that when a jury finds a person not guilty (for instance because of blatantly trumped up or false charges) that the judge can overrule that verdict and still sentence the defendant as if they had been found guilty.
On the other it could mean that if the jury should find a government employee guilty of premeditated murder the judge can simply find the government defendant not guilty.
These are truly scary times.
For when there is no justice or laws that apply to and are enforced on everyone equally, there is no longer a healthy society it is just a fight for survival.