Decibel ([info]decibel45) wrote,
@ 2008-01-16 12:09:00
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Who needs justice?
http://whitehouser.com/news/california-supreme-court-justice-denied/

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[info]goulo
2008-01-16 09:24 pm UTC (link)
Although this cases seems interestingly egregious, in general such a thing could happen in a perfectly innocent scenario even with no problems of powerful judges also having too many financial ties.

E.g. a judge should recuse himself from a case that involves a close friend or relative, right? So what if the judges are all close friends with the same guy by coincidence, and a case comes up involving him? In a sense the "algorithm" of law and justice simply isn't written to handle unusual test cases.

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[info]decibel45
2008-01-17 05:02 pm UTC (link)
I certainly understand why the judges should recuse themselves, but that doesn't help this guy out one bit. There needs to be recourse for these types of situations.

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[info]reanimated
2008-01-16 10:51 pm UTC (link)
o_o damn, that's sad.

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