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COUNTY COURT REPORT

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

We received the following email and picture:(Update- take our Jeopardy lawyer quiz below)Rumpole: At your request I have emailed you a picture of the offending message from the Prosecutors in County Court. In case the picture is not clear, it is handwriting on a Plea Sheet and says the following in Red Ink:"All pleas will be enhanced on trial day. This includes jail enhancement. These pleas are open today only." Will the FACDL considering filing a bar complaint against the State Attorneys Office and the individual State Attorneys who punish people for exercising their sixth amendment right to trial? Will anybody stand up for the proposition that people accused of crimes are presumed innocent? Will anybody fight for the right to trial? Will we all stand by here while the Judges kowtow to the State and turn our courts into plea machines? GIGO (garbage in garbage out) and assembly line justice is not what we should be participating in...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on November 18, 2009 (boomark / email).