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re: OT attorneys, how would YOU fix court system?
Posted on 2/7/17 at 11:11 am to SamuelClemens
Posted on 2/7/17 at 11:11 am to SamuelClemens
1. End the war on drugs. Decriminalization would cut the docket in most courts in half and greatly reduce demand for prison space
2. End inequality of resources for DA and Public Defenders offices. They should get equal funding from the same fund.
3. Extend ethics reforms to judges. Judges should be forced to recuse themselves when adjudicating cases where clients and/or representation are campaign contributors.
4. More checks on criminal judges. We've had judges in the 19th JDC caught running drugs and scamming defendents through bail bonds and they are still on the bench. The legislature should have more oversight and capacity to impeach corrupt judges.
5. Abolish civil asset forfeiture absent a conviction.
6. Allow the state, not local governments, to set speed limits on state highways to reduce speed traps.
7. Pass a law banning any revenue from traffic tickets or sale of siezed assets from going to police departments. The revenues should go into the fund for public schools, highways, or maybe the DA's and Public Defenders. It should not go to local governments or police departments.
8. Make it illegal for courts to set the court cost to contest a ticket as higher than half the fine value of said ticket.
9. Lower drinking age to 18.
Maybe then, police will actually focus on property crime and violent crime rather than trolling for fine revenue.
2. End inequality of resources for DA and Public Defenders offices. They should get equal funding from the same fund.
3. Extend ethics reforms to judges. Judges should be forced to recuse themselves when adjudicating cases where clients and/or representation are campaign contributors.
4. More checks on criminal judges. We've had judges in the 19th JDC caught running drugs and scamming defendents through bail bonds and they are still on the bench. The legislature should have more oversight and capacity to impeach corrupt judges.
5. Abolish civil asset forfeiture absent a conviction.
6. Allow the state, not local governments, to set speed limits on state highways to reduce speed traps.
7. Pass a law banning any revenue from traffic tickets or sale of siezed assets from going to police departments. The revenues should go into the fund for public schools, highways, or maybe the DA's and Public Defenders. It should not go to local governments or police departments.
8. Make it illegal for courts to set the court cost to contest a ticket as higher than half the fine value of said ticket.
9. Lower drinking age to 18.
Maybe then, police will actually focus on property crime and violent crime rather than trolling for fine revenue.
This post was edited on 2/7/17 at 11:43 am
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Posted on 2/7/17 at 11:33 am to kingbob
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Pass a law banning any revenue from traffic tickets or sale of siezed assets from going to police departments. The revenues should go into the fund for public schools, highways, or maybe the DA's and Public Defenders. It should not go to local governments or police departments.
i love these policies
all money goes to a state fund. remove the incentives for over-policing
Posted on 2/7/17 at 11:44 am to SlowFlowPro
I thought you might. Did you ever end up running for Congress last go around? Obviously the Cajun John Wayne ended up winning, but were you one of the Lake Chuck candidates?
Posted on 2/7/17 at 2:43 pm to kingbob
Enjoying the professional responses, just wanted to jump back in and say thanks. It's educational for us not involved in law.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 3:05 pm to SamuelClemens
Shut down around 40% of existing law schools. If attorneys were vetted like those applying for med school, you would have better attorneys, judges, DAs, public defenders, etc.
Cons would be that it could potentially restrict access to justice and make the system more expensive.
The legal field is extremely saturated with people who should have never gone to law school. The system itself works well when you have quality/people of integrity prosecuting, defending, and on the bench.
Cons would be that it could potentially restrict access to justice and make the system more expensive.
The legal field is extremely saturated with people who should have never gone to law school. The system itself works well when you have quality/people of integrity prosecuting, defending, and on the bench.
This post was edited on 2/7/17 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 2/7/17 at 3:17 pm to FrancisFromScottLA
I have a non related question.
Say I get arrested on a felony charge and judge sets bail at 100k. I'm guessing I have to pay 10% to bail out of jail? Now if the charges are dropped bc the accuser wrongly accused me, what happens to the 10k I spent on getting out of jail? I just lose it even though I had nothing to do with the alleged crime?
Say I get arrested on a felony charge and judge sets bail at 100k. I'm guessing I have to pay 10% to bail out of jail? Now if the charges are dropped bc the accuser wrongly accused me, what happens to the 10k I spent on getting out of jail? I just lose it even though I had nothing to do with the alleged crime?
Posted on 2/7/17 at 3:21 pm to FrancisFromScottLA
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Cons would be that it could potentially restrict access to justice and make the system more expensive.
could make the system more expensive? it undoubtedly would.
i'm sitting in my office in canal place looking out over the CBD and i'm trying to imagine what this city's office space would look like if 40% of the lawyers were gone.
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The legal field is extremely saturated with people who should have never gone to law school.
no doubt about this.
This post was edited on 2/7/17 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 2/7/17 at 3:21 pm to Gtothemoney
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Now if the charges are dropped bc the accuser wrongly accused me, what happens to the 10k I spent on getting out of jail? I just lose it even though I had nothing to do with the alleged crime?
My understanding was that you had the option of fronting the full amount of cash to the court, then being released or paying 10% to a bondsman who would front the remainder for you, with the caveat that you'd never get the money back regardless of the outcome of the trial.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 3:24 pm to NYNolaguy1
Treat drug addiction like a medical social issue.
Dissolve marriages in a less combative structure.
There goes 80% of your civil and criminal dockets.
Dissolve marriages in a less combative structure.
There goes 80% of your civil and criminal dockets.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 3:40 pm to coolneal
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No one can convince me that billy bob down the road understands the law better then educated lawyers/judges
That's why Billy Bob isn't deciding the legal questions in the case. He's listening to the witnesses and deciding whether he believes them. The judge will tell him what the law is and all Billy Bob has to do is decide what he thinks happened.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 3:42 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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And I say that as somebody who hates lazy, no self respect having pot heads more than most.
What about hard-working, self-respecting potheads? Asking for a friend.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 5:10 pm to SamuelClemens
You are most welcome, always happy to help 
Posted on 2/7/17 at 5:29 pm to ihometiger
Ditto! Stop gerrymandering districts also stop advertising make the bar exam more difficult
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