It won't come as any surprise, but....

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jujube

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......the trial of the woman who ran down my sister has been rescheduled AGAIN. Apparently this time, they have a new "blood test expert" and he won't be available for the January 22 trial date. So, the judge says, in essence, "sure, take all the time you need! March 30 OK for you guys?"

What the h-e-double-hockey-sticks is wrong with the justice system? I guess if you are rich enough (and her family is), you can just keep hiring more and more experts and delay the proceedings long enough for all the witnesses to either forget what they saw or die off. OK, I exaggerate, but when is enough.......enough?

I've never been through this kind of stuff before. Is this just Seattle/Washington nonsense (Washington gives all the rights to the guilty) or is this the same everywhere?
 

I don't know the story of your sister's accident. Can you direct me to your thread about it?
 

It's the same everywhere. And the reasons for the delays are exactly what you listed. The main purpose of these (so-called) defense experts is to muddle the thinking of jurors (who are not experts) so they don't know what to believe. And if the person is found guilty, you'll also be disappointed at the sentence. Our justice system is pathetic. So is the Jury system.
 
We've moved far away from the ideal of truth, and justice in our courts. If you are rich, you can probably get off free on your first murder. I was 16 , and had apart time job working in a discount dept.store. A Puerto Rican, middle aged man stole a 39 cent pair of socks to wear for a job interview. He was caught and turned over to the police. He eventually served time for the crime. Then it was noticed that over $300 of cameras were stolen. I googled it, that's about $2,600 in today's money. They caught the thief stealing more equipment. He was the 24 year old son of a doctor, who admitted taking the stuff. The store didn't press charges, they didn't want to have the "kid" have a "black mark" against him. The "kid" didn't even have to give back the stolen goods. I was told that giving back the loot was an admission of his crime, some kind of legal thing. While, in school, I read about democracy, and how everybody is "equal" before the law; I realized that the law rarely applies to the rich.
 
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Fuzzybuddy
Was in a grocery store, a bum (raggy, dirty...) walk by cash register, with a loaf of bread under his arm, then ran for the door. The manager chased him out into parking lot, tackled him, called cops; they carried him off...

By damn, were going to have law and order?
 
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I was working the day they caught the P.R. man shop lifting the socks. He was not wearing any socks. People criticized the store owners for prosecuting a 39 cent theft. The owners said they were trying to create the image that their store was NOT THE store to shop lift in. They were also about to fire the clerk, who worked the camera section of the store, where the thefts occurred -it was an "inside job". They set up something to catch her, but caught the "kid" in the act. The "kid's" father was also part owner of the jewelry/camera section of the store. What always got me was that they wanted blood from the P.R. guy, you know all that law & order stuff. But they didn't get any of the stolen cameras back. They took a $300 loss, because they didn't want to put a mark on the young thief's name. These incidents were happening at the same time.
 

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