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Prosecutors Talk Shop on DUI Enforcement

Check out this video.  Ask yourselves: Do these folks sound like judges?  After watching this video, if you were a defendant, would you feel that these judges would be fair and impartial?  Would they protect your rights? The video features this panel of judges: Robert Pirraglia of the Rhode Island District Court; G. Michael Witte of the Dearborn Superior Court; Peggy D. David of the Greene County Judicial Facility; Norman Kent Lawrence of the State Court of Clarke County. (Via Simple Justice.) Let me note: I think DUI laws are too lenient.  People run terrified of sex offenders, when it's so unlikely that a sex offender will ever harm them.  Yet many do not think twice about drunk drivers.  Much of that has to do with empathy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 16, 2008 (boomark / email).