On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: > Just pointing one thing out. That's an easy statement to make until > you are the person wrongly convicted or unjustly sentenced. THEN the > justice system, regardless of how well it has worked in on a case by > case basis, is a piece of crap.
Which is why I said in a later post, "...for [the wrongly convicted] who've lost years of their lives, one can't imagine the torment." However, all I'll say in the case of a wrongly convicted person (or any other miscarriage of justice) is that the justice system failed ~in that case~. I would not extrapolate that to say that the justice system is "a piece of crap". It's a human system, and as such is (despite our best efforts) imperfect. Were it perfect, we'd not need an appeal system. I continue to maintain that the English Justice System (and the places to which it's been "exported" including the Commonwealth Countries and the US) is the best there is and the best this world has yet seen. Not perfect, but pretty damned good. > "Better one hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man be > condemned." - Thomas Jefferson > > I know you'll agree. Yes, I agree (subject to my comments, above) both with your post and with Jefferson's quote (if I'm not mistaken it's also been attributed to the great English jurist, Lord Blackstone). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
