Posted on 10/29/2014 7:10:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
( I picked this version because it seemed to be the least encumbered by ads and other insanity. Oh, the irony! )
After watching OJ and Casey Anthony walk, it is refreshing to see these two trials seem to invoke justice. The author sounds like a lunatic.
Dunn murdered Davis over some dispute about loud music. Dunn was found guilty of 1st degree murder.
Sounds presidential.
Lehrer used it in his act (and recorded it). The Kingston Trio heard it performed by Lehrer at The Hungry I, incorporated it into their own act, recorded it, and had a big hit with it. But Sheldon Harnick—who would later write the lyrics for Fiddler on the Roof, The Apple Tree, She Loves Me!, The Rothschilds, and others wrote it.
I guess it's along the same lines as "Everything is Broken", but kind of a different take.
Jordan Davis does not get the benefit of the doubt that he had a right to disregard a command to turn his music down without being shot to death by a white man.
“In each instance, a white man was the aggressor who initiated the deadly altercation.
The George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn trials are modern-day examples of how justice has played out in American courtrooms for centuries outside the spotlight of media attention.”
Interesting he neglects to mention the difference in the outcome of the trials.
He's a lawyer.
I don’t know. I’m the only PhD that I know that doesn’t flaunt it. But I came to it way to late in life to be impressed with myself. :)
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I read that the presumption in Europe is that the accussed is guilty??
Our legal tradition is inherited from England, so certainly not all of Europe. I believe in France's system you must prove your innocence.
I had a seminar in graduate school with someone who was a Russian prince...but he just put “Mr.” in front of his surname on his syllabus, when he could have put “H.R.H. Prince...”
Let me answer that . . . No!
Not entirely broken, as the Zimmerman case shows. But it is seriously dented, in the sense that jurors are told that they don’t have the discretion that the prosecutor has - which is to treat a violation as serious or as a technicality. If as the author ofThree Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent - Harvey Silverglate (Author), Alan M. Dershowitz (Foreword)argues, anyone can be held to be guilty of something, that is not a minor point.
I prefer our system, even if the occasional OJ or Angela Davis goes free.
A jury of my peers in Miami can't speak my language. :-(
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