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Write until you pass out!?
MilesAhead:
If the legal system was infallible, and the amount of money didn't factor into the level of law and punishment (notice I didn't say anything about justice.. there's none of that in the legal system),
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-wraith808 (September 11, 2012, 09:47 PM)
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Lenny Bruce put it concisely, “In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.” :)
40hz:
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said it best when he told one hapless attorney: "This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."
Don't look to the courts for justice. It's not what they do.
Then there's this:
Justice is incidental to law and order. ~J. Edgar Hoover
Hmm...
Apparently it's not what the Judicial Branch thinks it does either.
MilesAhead:
The thing I like about the Bruce quote is that anyone who has been there, even for a traffic violation, knows exactly what he means. You meet your attorney in the hallway and that's where the deals are made. The courtroom session is a formality unless you can afford to be represented by a high powered law firm a la OJ.
cranioscopical:
Not that I haven't courted disaster more than once...
-Stoic Joker (September 12, 2012, 01:28 PM)
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That's something to a void.
40hz:
Of course there's some things I've read that made me wish more that the authors had passed out before they had written.
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