When do we start holding the legal profession accountable?

On the one hand, you have DAs and judges releasing a contract killer after 2 years of a 15 year sentence, and the guy goes on and murders 14 people and wounds 28 more. See post on Birmingham contract killer.

On the other hand, you have politically motivated DAs who can "get an indictment against a ham sandwich". The Soros DA in Austin was rejected by multiple grand juries - at least 4 IIRC - before finally dragging Daniel Perry into a kangaroo court where evidence was intentionally withheld.

For the cherry on top, you can't last in any kind of profitable business for more than a few years without having to defend a frivolous lawsuit. We all pay for that every single day in the price of everything we buy.

The Bar has not done a thing, and won't, to any of these people. At some point, do we accept that the legal profession is incapable of policing itself and needs external regulation? We have done that for the once-untouchable medical profession, perhaps to too great a degree, but even most of that stems from out of control lawyers.

So, how do we hold them accountable? You can't expect perfection from judges or DAs, so extreme punishments are out, but there should be both a cumulative penalty and lesser incremental penalties, and in extreme cases like the Birmingham hit man, punishment should be severe. For example, for every criminal a judge lets go early that commits another serious crime, the judge's pay is docked.

If a DA wrongly sends someone to jail AND it is shown that evidence was intentionally withheld or there was other misconduct, disbarment should be on the table.

I'll hang up now and listen to the shitshow.