[kingu]

In reality, the legal system is not the culprit - a dishonest lawyer is.

Is that lawyer in jail? How long of a sentence will she be serving? If this is not the likely result, then indeed, the legal system is the culprit. If this error isn't serious enough to send a person who is under court order to act in a particular manner to jail, then it can't be serious enough to dismiss the case.

That, I think, is why the common person thinks that the court system is broken. It is a system that demands perfection from imperfect people, and when that goal isn't met, it is the common person who has their justice denied.

[FreeInWV]

At the least, I think it would be quite approprite for the judge to yank her law license pending review by the Bar.

Of course that won't happen. She is a government lawyer.

[SoCal Pubbie]

You posted my thoughts and expressed them better than I believe I could have. The wrong people get punished here, if the death penalty is thrown out.

[Axhandle]

"If this error isn't serious enough to send a person who is under court order to act in a particular manner to jail, then it can't be serious enough to dismiss the case."

Good point. It would be nice of the lawmakers responded to this by putting punishments on par with the effect of the crime.