This generation might be likened unto a duke who told a land-owner that he was not allowed to dig a well on his own property. When the landowner asked the Duke why, the Duke threatened to seize his property if he ever dug a well on the land. The landowner went to the Governor and requested that he overturn the Duke's ruling. The governor said, "You may not dig a well there. However, there is treasure buried there." Neither did the Governor prohibit him from digging up the treasure. The Duke wondered why the Governor told him about the treasure because the Duke's love was cold.
I was recently having a conversation with someone about the possibility for unreliability and/or unfairness in the criminal justice system. I was reminded of this quote from a Supreme Court case which is from Justice Harry Blackmun's dissenting opinion. The case was Darden v. Wainwright 477 U.S. 168 (1986). Obviously he's talking about the Supreme Court level, but if this could be said about their accuracy, then how shall we communicate about fairness at the trial court level? "JUSTICE BLACKMUN, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN, JUSTICE MARSHALL, and JUSTICE STEVENS join, dissenting. Although the Constitution guarantees a criminal defendant only "a fair trial [and] not a perfect one," Lutwak v. United States, 344 U. S. 604 , 344 U. S. 619 (1953); Bruton v. United States, 391 U. S. 123 , 391 U. S. 135 (1968), this Court has stressed repeatedly in the decade since Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153 (1976), that ...
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