Suggestions?
You’re the lawyer, what ideas do you have?
I say “Broken” because of reading on FR and personal knowledge of friends who were innocent and yet one was convicted of a crime and the other was bludgeoned into plea bargaining. Actually a third was forced into a plea as well.
None actually committed any crime, what to speak of what they were accused of. The court supplied defenders did nothing, and the privately paid lawyer did absolutely squat.
I served on a grand jury for 3 months and discussed many cases, heard witnesses and cops. After the stint, the retiring county DA and I had a private little conversation. I opined that until public canings were standard, repeat criminals would continue sapping money and time and continue offending.
He sighed and said I was absolutely right, but that public wouldn’t go for it.
Well, sooner or later, the public will not only go for it, they will demand it.
Real punishment, not jail time, which costs huge bucks and does nothing to stop crime. In fact so much crime occurs in many prisons that’s a whole ‘nother topic.
Executions need to be brought back - for forcible rape, pedophilia, kidnapping, murder. Has to be brought back. Public executions.
Restitution needs to be made to victims who have suffered financially either directly or indirectly. There is no justice for victims.
The Miranda rule sucks. Cops’ hands are tied. Bad cops need to be thrown out of the force. Corrupt judges fired.
Very few people should be in jail. Does very few people any good and when they come out they are just as bad if not worse. Public pain and shame will be much better - cost is negligible, and the criminals will have a week or two to consider their lives, then the public pain and shame is administered, and they can re-focus their priorities. Those considering a life of crime will have motivation to reconsider.
After administration of public pain and shame, the (hopefully former) criminals will not have wasted years of life behind bars habituating them to be “clients” of the state. Since tons of tax money will be freed up, (and in peoples’ pockets, not the state coffers), privately run charitable programs for helping former offenders learn skills, trades and work ethics will be able to be formed.
Former prisons can be re-made into other uses. I have ideas for those, too!
The way it is now, “justice” is all too easy to be purchased, bias is incredible, jurors are handpicked to be the “right” kind of people, and AFAIK are never informed (or rarely) of their right to use nullification - voting not just G or NG, but NG because the law is unjust, wrong or unconstitutional.
Actually I know personally four people who were screwed royally by the “Justice” system, out of my small circle of acquaintance. One is still being ground in the meat grinder due to 10 years of probation - for a crime she did not commit.
It’s broken.