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Should Justice Be Rationed?

By Michael Blankenship

In an editorial regarding the prospects of abolishing the death penalty, I ran across this comment:?Justice is not a cost-benefit analysis. Justice is doing the right thing, no matter how much it costs,? Joseph Cassilly, a state?s attorney in Harford County, Md., testified at a public hearing of the Maryland study commission in August.Read more...I am struck by the contrast in willingness to spend limitless sums of money on "justice" and the reality of how funds are actually distributed. Is Mr. Cassilly willing to expend limitless funds for indigent defendants? Can they at least have the same budget as the State in order to hire mitigation specialists, forensic experts, investigators, social scientists, and competent legal representation?This comment from a prosecutor also raises an interesting question regarding "doing the right thing, no matter how much it costs...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on December 10, 2008 (boomark / email).