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Justice vs. Vengance and Efficiency

As I was writing this post on the defendant who cold-cocked one of his jurors and whose case was mistried, I was thinking that if more people read this blog, my post would pull an indignant comment or two. It did, from Anonymous, who commented on two posts in a row.(Anonymous' comments are in red)Anonymous had two beefs with the outcome of Richard Glawson's first trial: First, that the mistrial appeared to reward Glawson for his bad behavior. Second, that the mistrial wasted taxpayer's money."I guess the esteemed "judges" weren't in law school when they taught that a person was not entitled to profit from his own wrong."The judges probably were in law school when they were taught that there was a tree called "he who comes into equity must come with clean hands...continue to full post

Full post as published by Gideon’s Guardians on May 28, 2007 (boomark / email).