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Ron Littlepage: Angela Corey's hissy fits, threats unprofessional (Zimmerman, FL)
jacksonville.com ^ | 8 June, 2012 | Ron Littlepage

Posted on 06/08/2012 7:40:50 PM PDT by marktwain

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To: goseminoles; dragnet2

That’s disgusting isn’t it? Franz Kafka’s worst nightmares never imagined anything that freakish.


21 posted on 06/09/2012 7:44:59 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Uncle Chip
We all knew what was up when she refused to take this to a grand jury first.

And what the hell is with optional grand juries anyway?? The entire purpose of the grand jury system is to get buy-in from the public non-legal-professional community on the possible guilt of the party being indicted. It's a check on a government power subject to misuse. How the HELL can that be optional for the very people it's supposed to supervise?? This very case shows why it's bad to be able to skip that step. Just like jury nullification, it's there for a reason, yet they sit there and lie without consequence to tell you it isn't.

22 posted on 06/09/2012 8:33:50 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking
This very case shows why it's bad to be able to skip that step.

Yep --

23 posted on 06/09/2012 8:47:41 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: varmintman
But it seems clear as a bell to me that we need to get rid of the present "adversarial(TM)" system of justice,

The problem is not that we have an adversarial system of justice, but rather that the prosecutors have lost sight of the fact that their job is to prosecute people who actually commit crimes, and not merely those whom they can--by hook or by crook--convict a jury to convict.

The proper state of affairs would be for prosecutors to be slightly biased in favor of conviction, but for jurors to perceive them as being massively biased. A major danger with an inquisitional system is that it may reduce the extent to which jurors recognize the prosecutor's bias, without eliminating the actual bias that exists. Having prosecutors properly recognize that not everyone who comes before them actually committed a crime, and their job is only to convict the ones that did, would be much better than pretending that prosecutors are impartial.

BTW, in certain cases such as those involving government personnel as defendants, I would like to see a means by which private individuals could hire private prosecutors as an adjunct to the state-sponsored ones. To avoid double jeopardy, the public and private prosecutors would participate in the same trial, with the private prosecutors being allowed to ask any questions or call witnesses that the public prosecutors "missed". Too often, even when a cop's conduct is so egregious that he finds himself on trial, he'll get a lap-dog prosecutor who effectively throws the case (e.g. IIRC Kathryn Johnston's murderers were freed on appeal because the prosecutor "forgot" to prove that the crime was committed within the court's jurisdiction). Alternatively, at least for certain types of government personnel, it should be possible for a later prosecutor to re-charge them if they could first convince a jury that the original prosecution was a sham, the defendant was never really in jeopardy (but would have been with an honest prosecutor), and thus the double-jeopardy rule is inapplicable.

24 posted on 06/09/2012 2:02:16 PM PDT by supercat (Renounce Covetousness.)
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To: Still Thinking
And what the hell is with optional grand juries anyway??

Having the grand-jury stage be optional might make the justice system more efficiently if (1) the stage was only skipped in cases where a prosecutor could be certain that an indictment would be forthcoming if it were sought, and (2) prosecutors were held personally accountable (including being fired and/or sued) in cases where it can be shown retrospectively that a grand-jury indictment would not have been a slam-dunk. In other words, prosecutors would be entitled to skip the grand jury step only in those cases that were sufficiently strong that they would not mind being held personally accountable if their judgment wasn't correct.

The fundamental problem today is not lack of procedural safeguards, but rather a lack of accountability for government personnel who act in bad faith. Adding procedural safeguards won't help if those in charge of applying them don't act in good faith. And if government personnel do act in good faith, most of the problems the safeguards are supposed to prevent won't occur anyway.

25 posted on 06/09/2012 2:16:59 PM PDT by supercat (Renounce Covetousness.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
I wouldn’t mind if she ended up with egg on her face. She is a heel who deserves wounding.

Be patient, It will happen. As they say "Time wounds all heels"

CC

26 posted on 06/09/2012 7:49:46 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Q: how did you find America? A: turn left at Greenland)
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To: goseminoles

I have watched that video 3x...

It’s one of the most disgusting government news conferences I have ever seen.


27 posted on 06/10/2012 10:15:02 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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