I think it's criminal that you can sue for millions because you lost your job due to something minor, and they put a pay cap on someone they wrongly imprisoned and ruined their entire life....
This has rarely proven to work.
Look at the places that have citizen review boards: New Orleans, Houston, LA, etc.
The issue is that humans make mistakes.
Until we find some perfect humans, this stuff will sometimes happen.
Michael Brown
Not saying he should not be compensated but....... where is this money supposed to come from??? $250,000 per year that he was in jail????
How many of us on this board make that kind of money?
If I knew I was going to get $250,000.00 per year spent in jail for a crime I did not commit, I might have to come up with something and pay someone off.
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On the other hand I believe the public should have more understanding, access, and input in the court system because of the great many problems there.
The court usually has a public component i.e. juries.
The public also votes on judges in most jurisdictions.
It is easy to blame "the man" or " the system" but the reality is that WE are responsible for the state that we are in.
WE are responsible.
Not them, WE.
Unfortunately it's easy to complain on the internet and MUCH harder to get involved.
Michael Brown
The court usually has a public component i.e. juries.
The public also votes on judges in most jurisdictions.
It is easy to blame "the man" or " the system" but the reality is that WE are responsible for the state that we are in.
WE are responsible.
Not them, WE.
Unfortunately it's easy to complain on the internet and MUCH harder to get involved.
Michael Brown
The civil and criminal court system.
However, our system places a lot of emphasis on good faith.
Generally it takes an act of malfeasance to bring such review in a criminal court but the burden is much less for civil court.
It is as it should be.
The bottom line is that someone will always be unsatisfied.
We don't want higher taxes but we want low paid public servants to make million dollar decisions and crucify them if they're wrong and wonder how it could have possibly happened.
You can't have it both ways.
Anyone who'd like to be part of the system and improve how it's done, they're always hiring.......
Michael Brown
This is the EXACT reason police officers, judges and district attorneys are held to a higher standard. They have the ability to make decisions that seriously affect other people lives, rightly or wrongly.
I think it's time to get back to the judicial system in it's original concept. In the words of the English jurist William Blackstone, "Better than ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
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