I did the best I could to keep the resolution on the picture high so that people may see this. It's from way back in the day. I must have been a high school junior at the time. I blotted out the contact phone number for booking, suffice to say our drummer's home phone number was included in the original article!
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 ...
Comments
Post a Comment