Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Miscarriage of justice:
There's a judge Sanders on the Washington Supreme Court who I'm a fan of.
He was officially reprimanded recently for having toured a prison housing sex offenders.
This was bad. It's crucial that judges and anyone in the profession get to know the realities of what prisons are really like. Willful blindness leads to abu greib type situations. It's on appeal.
Matthew Hale was sentenced to 40 years for soliciting the murder of a judge - the same judge whose family members were killed by a disgruntled former plaintiff.
But based on the facts in the article, he did not solicit her murder, and stated that he himself was going to work within the system and what other people did was up to them. Hale is some kind of neonazi, and was linked to a guy who killed some people in Bloomington. He was also in the news when he was turned down for bar membership because of his political views. But that doesn't mean he should be framed and falsely convicted. He's also in trouble now for making a statement that he had nothing to do
with the lone gunman who killed the judge's family members - this was a true and reasonable statement. He's from east peoria, which is a rundown community where racial tensions simmer, and probably more young men graduate to prison than college.
I delivered phone books there one summer. I guess the link between the two men is that both are being targeted for having unpopular opinions, both are being denied due process and are being treated unfairly. I think that sort of thing is the norm rather than the exception.
There's a judge Sanders on the Washington Supreme Court who I'm a fan of.
He was officially reprimanded recently for having toured a prison housing sex offenders.
This was bad. It's crucial that judges and anyone in the profession get to know the realities of what prisons are really like. Willful blindness leads to abu greib type situations. It's on appeal.
Matthew Hale was sentenced to 40 years for soliciting the murder of a judge - the same judge whose family members were killed by a disgruntled former plaintiff.
But based on the facts in the article, he did not solicit her murder, and stated that he himself was going to work within the system and what other people did was up to them. Hale is some kind of neonazi, and was linked to a guy who killed some people in Bloomington. He was also in the news when he was turned down for bar membership because of his political views. But that doesn't mean he should be framed and falsely convicted. He's also in trouble now for making a statement that he had nothing to do
with the lone gunman who killed the judge's family members - this was a true and reasonable statement. He's from east peoria, which is a rundown community where racial tensions simmer, and probably more young men graduate to prison than college.
I delivered phone books there one summer. I guess the link between the two men is that both are being targeted for having unpopular opinions, both are being denied due process and are being treated unfairly. I think that sort of thing is the norm rather than the exception.
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