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quadraginta · 30th June 2017, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Samson

From my vantage point, it would bring the US Supreme Court into total disrepute to be implicated in the continued captivity of Brendan.
Nothing should surprise when form so often trumps function in justice, but that would shock me beyond belief.

I was pretty shocked when a sitting SCOTUS Justice, as part of a formal dissent, expressed the opinion that there was no Constitutional basis for preventing the execution of the actually innocent as long as the trial which declared them guilty had crossed all the "t"s and dotted all the "i"s. Later evidence be damned.

Tough to top that one.

30th June 2017, 04:26 PM	#3777
quadraginta Becoming Beth Join Date: May 2009 Location: Central Vale of Humility (USA, sort of) Posts: 26,244	Originally Posted by Samson From my vantage point, it would bring the US Supreme Court into total disrepute to be implicated in the continued captivity of Brendan. Nothing should surprise when form so often trumps function in justice, but that would shock me beyond belief. I was pretty shocked when a sitting SCOTUS Justice, as part of a formal dissent, expressed the opinion that there was no Constitutional basis for preventing the execution of the actually innocent as long as the trial which declared them guilty had crossed all the "t"s and dotted all the "i"s. Later evidence be damned. Tough to top that one.
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