What is wrong with our justice system?(see details)?
552826
First off, contact the district attorney's office ASAP. Tell them you want to push for the max sentence for him. Second, tell them withdraw the plea bargain from him and take it to a jury trial. Lastly, if they don't want to heed what you are saying, remind them that the news would be interested in this story.\n\nWith all of that said, you need to hear out the DA as to why this is (only probation) being offered. There may be circumstances that you are not aware of. I can't imagine what, but I have heard of a few that have actually made sense. \n\nBottom line, when this goes to court, you need to be there. I mean any hearing, preliminary hearing, motion hearing, jury trial, or sentencing hearing. Your presence will remind them how serious you are about this. If he is convicted, speak at his sentencing hearing and let the judge know exactly what your daughter had gone through.
591932
There is no absolution to any of this ....it just exposes the symptoms of the sick judicial system under which we are subject.
757203
Uh, you're kidding, or being facetious right?\n\nLaw enforcement personnel are sworn to uphold the law.  To degrade oneself by stooping to levels that perpertrators do makes any officer partaking in "street justice" a criminal, and therefore not truly an officer of the law, and not worthy to carry a badge.  \n\nThe court system is not perfect, but it's what we got.  When citizens get tired enough of youthful offenders stealing their hard earned belongings or assaulting them and begin to petition the law makers, then the court system may finally begin to work the way we all hope.  \n\nAny adult, police officer or otherwise, who takes out physical justice on an intellectually and emotionally immature person...read juvenile (sorry folks, that's what they are) are cowards.  Part of L.E. is rehab.  Cops aren't just about putting people in jail, they also assist in programs to help kids stay out of trouble.
422484
Same thing happened to me. My friend did a year in Federal prison for nothing. Get ready to learn how our justice system really works and remember it the next time someone tells you how we have the greatest government in the world.
1125060
OH yeah, it definetly makes me angry that they don't get what they deserve like everyone else does.  (eventhough out idiotic judicial system only gives people like a couple years for the crime).
230817
I can give you two reasons in particular: judicial resources are maxed out primarily because of 1) frivolous lawsuits being brought by dishonest people seeking to get rich based on loopholes in the system, and 2) the over-prosecution of minor drug offenses (most of which should be handled as mental health issues and not as crimes).  If we could solve those two major problems, justice would indeed be swift and society would be significantly better off.
978301
Death penalty laws are social engineering. I cannot subscribe to the ethics of social engineering. As a nurse who has worked in the system with pedophiles, I know also that episodic imprisonment is ineffective. They are relentless. I support the only known ethical solution which is chemical castration.  But, then again, I believe in that for Conservatives, too.
381336
Oh damnit, a political question, I was tricked. I think the main problem with the trust issue is mainly due to the iffy criminal justice system. In order for law to work it must be swift, severe, and gauranteed: People sit on death row for 15 years, child rapists have been released with simple probations for treatment and no punishment, and you can commit the same crime in 2 places, one gets you probation and the other gets you 20 years. I believe that until these issues are better delt with, people will not be able to believe that our justice system is efficient enough to "correct" anyone. Unfortunately our justice system is unique in the world, it is a system that would literally let 10 guilty people go than send one innocent person to jail, which I can't argue with, but hopefully in the future people will realize that it's a mess and someone will fix it.
1121491
All INjustice systems need serious change: they need to be gotten rid of.\nPrivate arbitration is the way to go if you want to fight the rampant corruption of our clearly dishonourable judges. Under the public system, everyone is forced to pay for a lousy service from judges who know the government places them above us "commoners" (and the law).\nLook up arbitration and see for yourself how it works. Then think about how it would apply to different disputes, especially to problems you've had with the court system. Arbiters have to actually work for their living, and contrary to popular belief, that is what's honest, not stealing your living from The People.
999797
Yes and no.\n\nI think the criminal system, even with it's flaws is still the best.  I wouldn't want to lose my rights to an attorney or a trial by a jury of the community and being innocent until proven guilty etc. when my freedom is at stake.\n\nCIVIL LAW however DESPERATELY needs to be OVERHAULED!  The fact that anyone can sue anyone else for anything and that person sued still has to go through the courts to get a case dismissed is TOO loose.  I think that there should be more ethics requirements on lawyers and fines for those who file frivilous lawsuits to discourage such stupid practices.
776114
Its the criminal Justice system that's up the creak. Prisons are full with people who should not be there The mentally incompetent  and sick ( They shut all the mental hospitals) people locked up for not paying fines maintenance (take the money from them when they get paid, receive the Giro)  \n\nThe result is the prisons are overcrowded, so the idiots let out the real criminals on parol to kill rape and rob the rest of us. The problem requires a complete overhaul of the way we punish offenders. Lock up real criminals and get the idle sods who dont pay finds or cause a nusance to work in the community clearing up the mess they make
716299
The justice system is so royally screwed up that I sometimes wonder if we might even be better off without one at all.\n\nAs someone who was abused by a sexual offender in the past, I would love to know why the accused offenders are getting more sympathy than the victims? That's no different than how the system currently works. Some officials won't believe a kid no matter what they say so the offender is never tried for their crimes and continues to do it.
1138051
I think it's a travesty of justice, to say the very least (the rest I'd like to add I can't say on yahoo without them editing most of it!)  that the "rich and the famous" can get away with whatever the hell they do, unlike the rest of us "common-folk"! How are we supposed to want to respect authority when our laws only pertain to those who can't  even afford to hire a good defense attorney? It's B------t.
103167
What you're forgetting is that tomorrow it could be you.  If you were accused of a crime, should we not give you any rights, just throw you straight in jail?  If you're just referring to people who have been convicted, which rights do you mean?  They don't have many.  You do have to remember that unless they got the death penalty, they are going to return to society some day.  You don't prepare someone for that by putting them in a hole and telling they they're not a citizen anymore.
521328
For the same reason it takes us so long to put them to death, We have become so politically correct that we care more about the person who has committed the crime than the victim. We have allowed Judges and lawyers the power to justify their jobs, without them caring about the victim of the crime. It has become a money game. If you have money you can do what you want !and get away with it. If not don't worry we will pay for the next 10 to 15 years of your trials, America, we need to wake up!!
1076947
we are too liberal!\nwe need to punish our criminals harder.\nkill anyone who commits murder, deals drugs, is a gang member.\nmake the kids go to school 6 days a week.  stop being political correct in school.  teach them the real history.
7939
It's definitely a shame when authority figures abuse their power, and it's often difficult to bring justice since they are in certain ways "above the law" though they shouldn't be.\n\nHowever, I'm not quite sure what the question here is. I'm sorry, but it's very hard to follow.