September 20, 2007
Justice Delayed (and Covered Up)
Simple Justice Blog, Appeals Court Buries the Body So No One Knows, tells a strange and disturbing tale of NY state justice.
It features multiple carelessness and incompetence, an unethical prosecutor, a judge unworthy of the robe, and general callousness.
In the end, justice of a sort was done, and a mistaken conviction set aside … in a way that covered many tracks.
Every law student should read this — reality isn’t quite like the textbooks.
Posted by Michael : September 20, 2007 12:01 AM | Law: Ethics | TechnoLinks
Slashdot
It!
Not as disturbing as the NY Times story about the "tiny courts" of rural NY, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/nyregion/25courts.html
Posted by: Archit at September 20, 2007 12:47 AMI actually teach the "tiny courts" article in my Jurisprudence class.
Posted by: Michael at September 20, 2007 07:42 AMLooks like some lawyers ought to be disbarred. The prosecutor for sure. Also the defense attorney who didn't tell his client about the dismissal and the one who didn't read the file.
Can a judge be impeached for not reading the file ?
Also thanks for the link
Posted by: robert Waldmann at September 21, 2007 02:04 AM