And the court jesters speak: Yes, we know your client is innocent of sexual abuse and sodomy... don't speak to us about irrelevant ideas like innocence - we don't care. I am physically sick to my stomach after reading this. (That seems to happen whenever I read any court "opinion.") Go ahead - try to convince us that courts care at all about justice after reading this. I dare you.
FTA: "A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has rejected an Oregon man’s petition for habeas corpus relief. This despite acknowledging that the man has established actual innocence for the crimes for which he’s being imprisoned (sexual abuse and sodomy of a four-year-old). The reason: He was late filing his petition. By the panel’s reckoning, adherence to an arbitrary deadline created by legislators is a higher value than not continuing to imprison people we know to be innocent."
Ninth Circuit Panel: Innocence, Schminnocence. We Have Rules, You Know
DISCUSS!
Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Jul 8, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=256
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