Dave wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 10:38 am
Bookworm wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:24 pm
Sitting in a granite courthouse for a day gets you irradiated as much as flying from New York to San Francisco. Imagine the yearly dosage for the judges, clerks, and paralegals.
And prosecutors, and other law enforcement officers too.
Oh, well... I imagine you get used to it. Even come to like and depend on it.
Come to think of it, this might be why the FBI made a big production out of it when they searched Micheal Cohen's office, and then again when they arrested Roger Stone. They just had to get their raid on for the day.
*booo*. Frankly, my experience with law enforcement and prosecutors is that they earn whatever they get, be it cancer or shot. Prosecutors don't care about the spirit of the law (or even the letter), they want convictions. Law enforcement personnel tend to be bullies that have been given a badge because they can project authority (Andy Griffith, not Don Knotts), rather than their interest in serving the public. Not too fond of most judges, either, because they refuse to throw cases out that are obvious garbage, and fine the lawyers/prosecutors that put those cases in front of them.
Obvious example. Man robs convenience store on camera. Face is plain as day. This should be a _15 minute trial_. "Was there a crime committed on this film, at the time and location listed?", "Did the person on the film commit the crime listed here?" Yes. "Is the person in the film present in the courtroom today?" Yes. "Jury should present their decision." That's _it_. Everything else is at the sentencing portion, which could be anywhere from a slap on the wrist to hanging, and you hear whatever might be ameliorating at that point.
Nowadays, that trial will take 12 months to get to court, and take at least a week to go through, because the guy looks totally different after a year in prison, and shouldn't be tried for a crime because he's a gay, black, Jew. (lesbian hispanic buddhist?)
Sorry - rant off.
Still, your wife should smack you for that pun.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.