Posted on 05/19/2006 7:17:27 AM PDT by Perdogg
This just reaffirms that if you have money to get out that your innocence and the establishment of it can wait.
I must respectfully disagree with that premise.
The real solution here is to address why there is a backlog that forces 'SPEEDY' to be dealt with in terms of Years.
There is only so much courtroom space and personnel, and Durham has a high crime rate, crimes that also must be dealt with in the courts. This case is in all likelihood is going to be long, as in several days or weeks, and will require free space and no doubt extra security for that length of time. I don't think it will be years for a trial, and I don't think it should take the year that Nifong is talking about. But a trial prior to the start of school in August is not likely to happen.
If the reason they cannot comply with a constitutional right to a speedy trial then by all means they need to augment their resources.
As I touched on previsouly in this thread when other business require more labor to keep up they add employees and they add shifts and they add days worked.
It is time that our courts get off this monday thru friday ( sometimes even thrusday) 9 to 4 workweek! You know like MOST of the rest of the population???
If I am innocent there is no real chance I would spend any time in prison.
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Hahahahahaha! You are a comedian.
I think there is a good chance the case will be moved from Durham to a place with similar demographics. The same reverse racism will greet the defendants there.
If I set out to alienate those potential jurors, I would start by publicly crying about the unfairness of my wealthy client's hardship in postponing his $45,000 a year education. Beth Karas on Court TV mentioned yesterday that the ATM account for Seligmann was $24,000 at the time he made his withdrawal.
If I heard that, potential jurors open to jury nullification heard too. At this point in the witchhunt the best strategy imo is to seek no special treatment, leak in stages enough exculpatory evidence to remind the public of the persecution occurring, and wait patiently for vindication.
That sentiment shows who really cares about the truth eh?
Court has become about who can twist the rules more in order to win. Justice is not served by this action and everything that can be done to expose that should be done.
I, for one, hope that Gretta hammers this everyday until they fess up with the facts.
While I am not a comedian I hold my honor to be quite dear.
I would gladly be sent to jail before I would admit to something I did not do or even pay someone off that is falsely accusing me.
Does it honestly surprise you so much that someone is willing to stand tall in their convictions rather than bow to extortion?
If it does, you have been sadly segregated from real, true blue, red blooded Americans.
LOL! A forgivable typo, considering how long we have been up to our necks in Shiite and stuff.
Thanks ;)
I did not say alone that I would gladly be in jail.
Removing context to spin a meaning is something folks do when attempting to avoid eventual defeat in debate.
In context I would be happy knowing that I had not bowed to extortion and stood up for what was right and proper.
You know kind of like you say when talking about not bowing to a liberal when you say call racisim racism when it is racism and not to call it something else.
The case will probably be moved to Greensboro.
The law and justice are often strangers.
Somewhere way back I am on record in agreement.
Only if we can change human nature. The fact that the law occasionally produces justice is an improvement over the prior condition in which human nature just ran unchecked.
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