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WTF is wrong with our legal system?

Posted on 3/13/17 at 12:50 pm
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
20927 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 12:50 pm
Some quick round ups from recent appellate decisions...

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High Point, N.C. officer allows police doggie to bite unresisting homeless man twice after realizing the man is not the robbery suspect he’s pursuing. Fourth Circuit (over a dissent): Qualified immunity.


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During prolonged interrogation, Milwaukee detectives falsely tell intellectually disabled suspect that he failed a polygraph and that eyewitnesses identified him as the murderer. He proclaims his innocence more than 140 times, but eventually confesses and spends over a year in jail before the confession is suppressed and the charges are dropped. Can he sue the detectives for coercing the confession? He cannot, says the Seventh Circuit.



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Officers at Stearns County, Minn. jail listen to pre-trial detainee shriek, bang his head against the door of his cell for eight hours. Deliberate indifference to his medical needs? Could be, says the Eighth Circuit. But officers who held him down and tasered him are immune from the excessive-force claim arising from his death.


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Oklahoma prosecutor issues fake subpoenas, bogus arrest warrants in attempt to force three underage witnesses to testify against murder suspect — and does not inform their parents or get them counsel. (One, a 12 year old, testifies but later recants.) The suspect spends 16 years in prison, much of it on death row, before being freed. Oklahoma Supreme Court: No need to disbar the prosecutor.


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Inmate spreads feces about his cell. While he is restrained and compliant, an officer allegedly punches him in the gut. The officer is fired. North Carolina court (over a dissent): Reinstate him.


A lot of here...

Washington Post
Posted by TheAlmightySmash
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2014
5480 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 12:55 pm to
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Inmate spreads feces about his cell.
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officer allegedly punches him in the gut


Deserved it tbh
Posted by Hammertime
Will trade dowsing rod for titties
Member since Jan 2012
43030 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 12:55 pm to
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Oklahoma prosecutor issues fake subpoenas, bogus arrest warrants in attempt to force three underage witnesses to testify against murder suspect — and does not inform their parents or get them counsel.
I thought this was highly illegal
Posted by LucasP
Member since Apr 2012
21618 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 12:58 pm to
Those people should not have played stupid games if they didn't want to win stupid prizes.
Posted by BIGJLAW
Member since Mar 2013
8440 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 12:58 pm to
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Washington Post

You need to be banned for quoting this garbage.
Posted by ClientNumber9
Member since Feb 2009
9326 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 12:58 pm to
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Inmate spreads feces about his cell. While he is restrained and compliant, an officer allegedly punches him in the gut.


Have zero problems with this whatsoever.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
114047 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 1:07 pm to
Without reading beyond "Some quick round ups from recent appellate decisions" I can answer to some degree,

It is a complicated system that is suppose to be fair, it would only be fair if everyone was able to pay for the same quality lawyers.

There are people who stay in jail for longer than they should because although their bond is set low, they still can't afford it. Then there are people who should have to stay in jail longer than they do, get out ASAP because, even though the bond is set extremely high, they have the means to get out.

There are people in jail, who will stay there until their court date. In some cases, their sentence is shorter than the time they already served... Which means, more tax dollars than should have been spent, is spent on these people.

One example of what's wrong with the legal system is the animal who broke into the house of a mother and daughter (was it in spanish town?), killed the mother and injured the daughter. He should have been in jail, but Judy White happened.

To be continued...
Posted by Green Chili Tiger
Lurking the Tin Foil Hat Board
Member since Jul 2009
47674 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 1:13 pm to
Is this where we say "Those who comply survive"?
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
67497 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 1:14 pm to
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WTF is wrong with our legal system?

It's corrupt & fricked up
Posted by keakar
Member since Jan 2017
30128 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 1:35 pm to
so what? we already knew lawyers and judges suck, racism is fine when its blacks who are the racists, and O J Simpson and Casey Anthony got away with murder.

life isn't fair and everyone is out to get you if you don't watch your back and never trust anyone, not even family and especially not your friends
Posted by Saskwatch
Member since Feb 2016
16606 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 1:44 pm to
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During prolonged interrogation, Milwaukee detectives falsely tell intellectually disabled suspect that he failed a polygraph and that eyewitnesses identified him as the murderer


This is mega Fk'd up if the person in question is Downs or MR.
Posted by airfernando
Member since Oct 2015
15248 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 1:58 pm to
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intellectually disabled suspect
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spends over a year in jail
that seems odd
Posted by MontyFranklyn
T-Town
Member since Jan 2012
23832 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 2:07 pm to
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High Point, N.C. officer allows police doggie to bite unresisting homeless man twice after realizing the man is not the robbery suspect he’s pursuing. Fourth Circuit (over a dissent): Qualified immunity.
That'll teach him to not be the suspect in question. That's how you take a bite out of crime. The officer should be fired, sued and fined.


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During prolonged interrogation, Milwaukee detectives falsely tell intellectually disabled suspect that he failed a polygraph and that eyewitnesses identified him as the murderer. He proclaims his innocence more than 140 times, but eventually confesses and spends over a year in jail before the confession is suppressed and the charges are dropped. Can he sue the detectives for coercing the confession? He cannot, says the Seventh Circuit.
This is just......Why can't these people be held accountable for their actions. This stuff is going to have to change on the local level. That is down right criminal.

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Officers at Stearns County, Minn. jail listen to pre-trial detainee shriek, bang his head against the door of his cell for eight hours. Deliberate indifference to his medical needs? Could be, says the Eighth Circuit. But officers who held him down and tasered him are immune from the excessive-force claim arising from his death.
Smh. We give these people too much power in having no recourse.

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Oklahoma prosecutor issues fake subpoenas, bogus arrest warrants in attempt to force three underage witnesses to testify against murder suspect — and does not inform their parents or get them counsel. (One, a 12 year old, testifies but later recants.) The suspect spends 16 years in prison, much of it on death row, before being freed. Oklahoma Supreme Court: No need to disbar the prosecutor.
There is much need to disbar the prosecutor as well as soon his arse and the local government's arse off.

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Inmate spreads feces about his cell. While he is restrained and compliant, an officer allegedly punches him in the gut. The officer is fired. North Carolina court (over a dissent): Reinstate him.
That's crappy situation.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
57348 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 2:47 pm to
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EPA agents lead armed raid


Why does the EPA have guns?
Posted by Warfarer
Dothan, AL
Member since May 2010
12132 posts
Posted on 3/13/17 at 2:48 pm to
serious answer. Liberals are what is wrong with our legal system. People not willing to just take their lumps that they deserve keep our legal system clogged up. Dumb arse lawsuits and settling out of court for those dumb shite lawsuits are what's wrong with our legal system.

I wish every day that America would just implement caning. Caught stealing? 6 licks from a cane and be done with it. Guess what though? Won't do it again. Caught vandalizing? A few licks and you won't do it again and don't have to bother with jail time.

There should also be a penalty against people who makes false accusations or frivolous lawsuits. If I get sued for some stupid bullshite that I didn't do, I still have to hire a lawyer to go fight it and am out a chunk of cash. I got pulled into a lawsuit about a construction job years back and I had never even been on the job and nothing to do with the job, they just found my name and thought I had. I had to pay a lawyer to go down and tell them I had nothing to do with the job. If shite like that was reimbursed by the plaintiffs then it would get rid of a lot of ambulance chasers willing to start writing letters to cash grab.
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