Comments on: Police and prosecution roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/08/police-prosecution-roundup-ii/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 21 Aug 2013 08:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: JTW https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/08/police-prosecution-roundup-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-235603 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 08:49:16 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=40336#comment-235603 ‘ How much longer before it will become “Sentence First, Verdict Later”?’

“you have to vote for the law before you know what’s in it” comes to mind…
Or the age old “he would not have been arrested if he’d not done something wrong”, making every arrested person automatically guilty.
This is already the case with traffic tickets, where appeal is only possible after paying the fine, an act that is an implicit admission of guilt, thereby making the appeal pointless.

]]> By: Free speech roundup - Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/08/police-prosecution-roundup-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-235577 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 04:30:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=40336#comment-235577 […] Scheme backed by many state AGs to roll back websites’ immunity for content posted by visitors “could singlehandedly cripple free speech online” [ACLU, earlier] […]

]]> By: KDP https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/08/police-prosecution-roundup-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-235394 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:27:14 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=40336#comment-235394 On “Jury Expected To Render Guilty Verdict:” How much longer before it will become “Sentence First, Verdict Later”?

(With kudos to Lewis Carroll.)

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