Right to a fair trial

[DougShrapnel]

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If a juror makes a mistake, how can you fault someone for honestly trying to do his best?

[/ QUOTE ] It's the grander scheme of things, that we allow and encourage an unjust legal system with little personal accountability. As David said in his Death Penalty piece, we bury our heads in the sand to the unjustness of certain actions of the legal system.

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Limit your question here, I think might be the way to approach the subject.


[/ QUOTE ] Yes, this is a symptom. I could limit my subject here but I'm a root cause kind of guy. And the root of the problem is the rights we are granted or demand. We say that someone is presumed innocent, but we do not mean it. It shows when we say that someone be it a criminal or other has the right to a fair and fast trial. Only criminals have a right to a fast and fair trail. I'm not big on arguing the rights of criminals, so I won't go much further than that. Plus if I limited my argument, I don’t think it would be as fun. Bringing the whole practicality thing into a philosophical discussion lessens your options.




There are others, and I'm in the minority here, who think the system is perfectly fine indicting not guilty persons. It’s the price we must pay to have justice. I’m not buying. Innocent until proven guilty and Right to a fair and fast trail are conflicting statements