just is

If you took lawyers and laid them end to end, head to foot, etc--how many would it take to stretch from the earth to the moon--------not enough, but it would be a good start--

ok, bad joke but good lawyer joke and that's the only thing i've written in a very long time---continuing battle with the criminal justice system--which translates that the (alleged, yeah right) criminal has all the rights, the victim has none-----one of the lawyers/paralegals, whatever, in the state attorney's office agreed with me when i told her this--nobody believes the "system" works----i know i've said before that we practically deify our founding fathers--putting forth the constitution with all its changes, amendments, etc. (and some of the amendments are indeed great) as what they would have wanted---but any fledgling historian would tell you if any of these founding fathers came back, a majority of the criminals that go through court would have quick trials and be summarily hanged within a few days--some might not make it all the way through court--now the DA's (which in most cases should be abbreviation for something other than district attorney--as in first word is "dumb") and state attorneys will not prosecute a case unless they are absolutely sure they can win and even then they will usually plead down just to make sure--and then there needs to be a lot of press coverage on top of that----still, i have been reminded as bad as our system is, it is still the best in the world--and i believe that--somehow it didn't ring quite as true being told that by a lawyer--- and ok, i know there are good lawyers, i have actually met a FEW---i wonder if they are an endangered species--sometimes i feel the rest of us are--

i know, this blog is turning into a rant--but i actually read some stuff written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Thomas Jefferson today and it's like what they said not only was from a different time but almost like a fossil record of what the judicial system was supposed to be--in others words--my words---Lady Justice might be blind, but Jefferson and later folks like Holmes didn't intend for her to be stupid

ok, i'll stop now
peace
-will-