Hating the Truth
When faced by the truth...
It is flawed human nature that makes us want to believe things that are not true.
This causes problems in our judicial system.
I've watched a particular crime show multiple times...
The 3 daughters of a woman who killed her husband -
refused to believe that their mother killed their father/stepfather.
Instead, they hate their grandparents (the parents of the dead husband),
for believing their mother is a murderer.
Somehow, Grandpa and Grandma are the guilty ones in this scenario.
I am distressed about these young women, while still feeling sorry for them,
because they won't admit they might come from a gene pool contaminated with such evil.
These kinds of people often grow up and spend their lives excusing the bad behavior of others - in court, as defense lawyers or mental health advocates.
And the same goes with the older relatives of young suspects,
who in their zeal to advocate for their son, brother, etc.
actually, thwart legitimate confessions that the true victims deserve to hear.
What will these 3 sisters do when Jesus demands they face the truth on the Judgment Day?
Will they call Jesus a liar too?
That day is coming - for everyone who thinks a guilty relative is innocent.
Will they call Jesus a liar too?
That day is coming - for everyone who thinks a guilty relative is innocent.
Yep.
Supreme Courts
And let us remember that Supreme Courts exist to right the legal wrongs
committed by lower-court judges.
... what those judges allowed to happen in their courtrooms.
Or...refused to let happen in their courtrooms.
Supreme Courts judge defendants and plaintiffs - less that they judge - Judges...get it?
Think about that.
Furthermore...
Each Supreme Court has a panel of judges, several of them,
in the hopes that the majority of the judges will make a decision
that is Constitutionally valid.
This speaks toward our Founding Fathers' opinion of the frailty of human justice
and its susceptibility to judicial perversion.
Internal Affairs
Internal Affairs Departments prove that there are police officers who mis-perform:
*for lack of proper training
* by making decisions under pressure that are not in line with department procedures
* for misusing their authority for personal financial gain
* for misusing the power of their authority to exercise undue power over others.
* to feed their egos
* etc.
And many prisons have set-in-place procedures for handling former cops who get prison time for breaking the law. So, LEO-abuse is not a surprise to those who know the system.
As I mentioned before, in my neighboring county in Nebraska, an investigating officer planted evidence that put two innocent men in prison for life for a double murder.
But the evidence-plant was discovered, the innocent men were freed,
and the CSI-perp was sentenced for 20 months to 4 years in prison.
Under God's Old Testament law in Deuteronomy 19:
"16 If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse someone of a crime, 17 the two people involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the Lord before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time. 18 The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against a fellow Israelite, 19 then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge the evil from among you. 20 The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you. 21 Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
So, if this CSI-perp had lived in Old Israel, he would have been stoned for murder.
And in today's America, he should have been given four life-sentences for what he did
to do to those two innocent men.
Or even... the death penalty, since Nebraska has the death penalty.
How many sins are more evil than putting two innocent people in prison for one's own ego?
Jean-Baptiste Huet 1766
Defense Lawyers
Unfortunately, unlike Supreme Courts and Police Internal Affair Departments,
there is no agency or department solely dedicated to the discovery and punishment
of unscrupulous lawyers who use malicious defense,
or regularly, intentionally float lies and evidentiary falsehoods to try to free guilty clients.
Disbarment is overseen by each State's 'Bar Association',
which consists of lawyers and judges.
And those in charge can decide if they will even consider a complaint.
Most disbarment complaints are about lawyers who financially defraud clients,
not about lawyers who so pervert our judicial system.
(I once did a property transfer in another state, that was misfiled. When I tried to track down the lawyer, I learned he was in prison for defrauding a farmer's widow out of $500K. ) Wow.
As an outsider, this looks like 'professional mesireh' where the bad apples are protected
by the others in the group.
Jurors should be able to ask for a review of a lawyer's ethical performance from
a real oversite organization, and the same goes for prosecutors and expert witnesses.
And who monitors mental health witnesses that often thwart justice in our courtrooms?
Expert witnesses
When 'expert witnesses' disagree on a matter, at least one of them is wrong.
Yet after the trial, they each go on their way,
without any consequence, free to mis-testify other day.
And so do those that hire them, either prosecutors or defense lawyers.
norman rockwell
Jury-initiated investigations
I have seen so many crime shows where at least one Officer of the Court did something wrong. (judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, etc)
A few times, I have heard from jurors who acquitted a defendant,
who said that if they had known everything the judge withheld, they would have convicted.
What if each jury panel, 6 months after the trial
were to assemble and vote to see if any officer of the court or expert witness
should be investigated for incompetence, or improper bias?
These reports could be reviewed by Grand Juries appointed specifically for this purpose.