America’s Third World System of Criminal Justice

American Spectator ^ | July 14, 2013 | Professor Frank H. Buckley, George Mason University School of Law

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Zimmerman case underlines what many experts have been saying for some time: America’s system of criminal justice is seriously broken. We have a list of federal crimes so vast in number that it can’t be counted. We’ve also departed from standards of intentional wrongdoing and criminalized acts done without a guilty mind. Put those two things together, and America makes a potential criminal out of everyone. The only safeguard is the integrity of the criminal justice system, from the Department of Justice to local prosecutors on down, and now the Zimmerman trial tells us how weak a reed that can be.

Start with Obama’s tampering with the jury pool, in this case all of America. Trayvon Martin, he said, looked like the son he might have had. After that, I found the defense counsel’s Knock, Knock joke about the near-impossibility of finding an unbiased jury funny. One had to laugh. Either that, or cry.

Then there was the DoJ subsidy to protesters in the area of the trial. Just in case, maybe, the jurors hadn’t gotten with the program. The dollars in question were small. The principle in question wasn’t. Justice is supposed to be blind, and maybe it is in other countries. Only not in Eric Holder’s DoJ.

Then there was the evidence of prosecutorial misbehavior. Prosecutors are supposed to turn over all evidence that might tend to lead to an acquittal. Seems they didn’t here, but things like that don’t appear to matter much anymore......

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[Standing Wolf]

America’s Third World System of Criminal Justice

What else would we have in a post-constitutional oligarchy?

I believe the time is at hand for states to secede from the oligarchy and reassert our original Constitution. Much as we now have "justice" in name only, so have elections degenerated into irreparable exercises in massive, systematic election fraud, so there's neither possibility nor hope of voting our way back from an imaginary precipice.

[FlingWingFlyer]

...America’s system of criminal justice is seriously broken.

It's not just the criminal justice system. The whole damn judicial system in this country is in need of some serious "comprehensive reform". The system is flat broken from the SCOTUS on down.

[stormer]

The biggest problem with the American justice system is that we have adopted an adversarial rather than inquisitorial approach. Rather that attempting to fairly determine facts, we look at criminal (and civil) cases as contests to be won - regardless of truth. “Winners” are rewarded with money, prestige, and power, while “losers” are cast aside.

[Navy Patriot]

America’s Third World Marxist dictatorial System of Criminal Justice

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Accurate but namby pamby.

[yldstrk]

I have determined that the Constitution is not perfect, far from it, there is no check or balance for the executive branch

[Calvin Locke]

From George Mason U.?

Isn't that the school that's going to be offering a course on Trayvon Martin for the purpose of race pimping in the Fall?

[Irenic]

Agree.

[varon]

....................irreparable exercises in massive, systematic election fraud, so there's neither possibility nor hope of voting our way back from an imaginary precipice (My emphasis)

. The rea problem is that the precipice is no longer imaginary, it is the real thing...........

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

thanks for thread...great article, scairy.

This trial was one for the Good Guys..but its an uphill fight.

Can you believe I only discovered American spectator tonite? ha.

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[PghBaldy]

There are two other branches, but they seem to let black thug POTUS get away with murder.

[blueunicorn6]

Six Americans stood up against the government railroad. I feel pretty good.

[yldstrk]

yes, obviously the legislature is checked by the judiciary, but the exec ain’t checked by anything

[GOPJ]

In the Zimmerman case, the state, responding to political pressure, and fanning the flames for political reasons, did everything it could to make life Hell for an innocent man. They forgot only one thing. The judge agreed to keep the names of the jurors from the press during the course of the trial. She’s now been asked to extend the ban a further six months, and she’s sitting on the motion. Am I the only person who thinks the trial might have gone differently if a DoJ mob had been sitting on the jurors’ doorsteps?

Insightful post - thanks.

[Piranha]

Don’t be distracted. The Federal government is going to use sleight of hand, to keep our attention focussed on riots and demonstrations like the ones in Oakland, San Francisco and elsewhere, to try and give Boehner and Cantor breathing room to force amnesty for illegal aliens down our throats. DON’T LET THEM DO THIS!!