Appellate Law

Who owns the truth?

By S. COTUS

A Public Defender once again points to Western Justice, whom he accuses of being a hollier-than-thou prosecutor that just doesn?t get it.  (See also Simple Justice's post).

There are some prosecutors that can smell BS.  There are some that can?t.  There are some that don?t want to, because they believe that a ?just? lie is more true than an ?unjust? truth.?  (Of course ?just? usually means that some guy goes to jail.)

On the defense side, at least people are honest about it: everyone lies.  Cops lie.  Defendants lie.  Witnesses lie.  Cops lie to get witnesses to lie.  Heck, even judges lie.

As dirty as all this sounds it just doesn?t matter.  Our system isn?t about ?truth.?  It is about burdens.  Everyone knows this.  I don?t know why Western Justice don?t come to terms with this.

Full post as published by Appellate Law and Practice on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).