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To: exit82
-- The law is not an exact science. --

Especially not appellate law, which is outcome-based, not precedent based. The judge picks the outcome he wants, then carfts an argument (often misapplying precedent by cherry-picking) that reaches the desired outcome.

At the SCOTUS level, law is almost purely a political activity, due to corruption of the function over the past 4 or 5 generations.

Trial courts are just as bad, party out of pure incompetence, and partly out of the fact that erroneous trial decisions are expensive to appeal, and the trial judges know it. IOW, they know they are free to make mistakes, even deliberate ones, and the only consequence is being reversed.

142 posted on 01/09/2016 5:43:59 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

You nailed it.

Great description of the real state of jurisprudence.

Truth, justice and the American Way—modern justice has little or none of any of them.


143 posted on 01/09/2016 5:46:54 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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