Broken Justice

[DrLove42]

As an outsider I have to say that the justice system is truely broken

The guy who threw a pie at Rupert Murdoch is being prosecuted for assault and harassment
And yet at the same time the owners of a dog that bit off part of a 2 year old face, face no punishment of any kind....dogs completly safe from any punishent as well as it happened on the childs parents property, not the dogs owners.

Justice is just screwed really....we live in a world where the victims get less rights and protection than the criminal, where the tinist slight or problem is pushed to stupid conclusions.

Bah...mini rant over...

News stories for refernce;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-14331673
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14339271

[eldargal]

No sympathy for the pie thrower (or Murdoch), that sort of humour wasn't funny in the 1920s an it isn't funny now. Nor did it achieve anything beyond making the wife look good for punching the idiot.

The dog should be destroyed.

[Col.Gravis]

No sympathy for the pie thrower (or Murdoch), that sort of humour wasn't funny in the 1920s an it isn't funny now. Nor did it achieve anything beyond making the wife look good for punching the idiot.

The Courts are going OTT on that guy though, there is no two ways about that, he should not get off scot free, but the charges are daft. Plus money talks, and as Murdoch has plenty of it the poor chap will no doubt be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Though personally I'd say Murdoch got his 'just deserts'.


The dog should be destroyed.

No doubt about that.

[scadugenga]

The reverse would be true in the States. The dog would absolutely be destroyed (which is a shame--bad/violent dogs are solely the cause of bad owners) and the dog owners would be held civilly and criminally liable.

[wittdooley]

Yeah, we absolutely destroy bad animals, but not bad people (unless you're in Texas).

Contrarily, we spend over 30K per prisoner per year to be housed, fed, and detained.

[Brass Scorpion]

The system is totally nuts. I've seen cases where people served 5-7 years for killing someone and someone else gets 10-20 years for check fraud. Weird.

There was a case in Georgia this week where a woman, Raquel Nelson, got a longer jail sentence than the driver who ran over and killed her child. Public outcry finally changed her sentence, but it was a close one. The driver who killed her child is partially blind and admitted to consuming alcohol and pain killers before driving the car! He also fled the scene after the accident. All that and he only got 6 months in jail even though he was recently released for a similar crime he committed in 1997. The all-white jury was going to send the victim to jail for 3 years. That is "messed up" to say the least.

There's a detailed article on the hit and run case here: http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/cobb-mom-opts-for-1042791.html

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