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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The Injustice System
  • Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:25:21 -0700

Rob wrote:

At 10/6/2004 11:16 AM, Tvo wrote:

---after all, the basic function of the court system is "justice", no more, no less.


I thought these days the basic function of the court system (these days) was the "game" of law. Justice is just an expression....



Rob
becidawa AT hctc.com

tvoivozhd---1900 was the tipping-point toward monstrous injustice in the judicial system" Today it IS a game---in which the rules are decided (and arbitrarily changed) by judges who have no business in depriving a jury of the power of deciding a case any way they deem best to produce a just verdict in that particular case.

Up until about 1900, judges routinely told juries in criminal trials that they had the right to vote their conscience. In the twentieth century, with few changes in law, the judicial practice has evolved to a completely different stance.

Today, in trials involving controversial laws, during the jury selection process, the judge will strike "for cause" anyone who states that he or she disagrees with the law. They go even further by telling juries that they are ONLY JUDGES OF THE FACTS. Judges tell juries that even if they disagree with the law, if the accused is found to have broken it, the juries MUST convict. Finally, the judges can hold anyone in contempt of court who tries to inform juries of their right to judge the law.

That ":anyone" includes any defendant-lawyer who tries to inform the jury that they can vote their conscience---or even one juror telling another juror the same thing.











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