A justice system that does not function correctly, is by definition unjust.
Tom On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:08 PM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
