I'm not a Freemason either, by the way. I don't belong to any similar fraternal community organizations like moose or elk lodges, or the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. The reason I seem that way, though, is that the Masons accumulate a lot of knowledge unto themselves, and I just happen to be a knowledgeable person. That doesn't mean I'm a Freemason, though. I was never a Freemason, and I never attended a Freemason lodge.
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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