I AM THE FORCE

"Ours is a sick profession. [A profession marked by] incompetence, lack of training, misconduct, and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day."
Justice Warren Burger

"Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."
Thomas Jefferson

What's ironic about this box article by Steve Walters in today's MJS?
"Both Parties Blurred the Lines of Campaign Work"
NONE of the information in this article was permitted to be introduced in the trial by Judge Ebert - despite the fact that they (a) put the Jensen allegations in context, (b) spoke to the wholesale, bipartisan confusion (or disregard) over where the blurry line between campaign and legislative work fell, and (c) were at the crux of whether Jensen acted in a manner "INCONSISTENT with the duties of his office" as the criminal charge stated.
Savvy Emailer

"People who argue that "everybody does it" is not a defense miss the point. The issue is not whether the government must prosecute everybody who does something wrong. It is instead whether it is fundamentally fair to pick and choose certain individuals for felony prosecution while intentionally turning a blind eye to similar misconduct when committed by others? I honestly have serious doubts whether the Jensen convicton will stand up on appeal. At the very least, I fail to see how someone can be convicted of trying to intentionally obtain a dishonest advantage without being allowed to present evidence that everybody else was doing the same thing. I mean, how did Jensen get an advantage (dishonest or otherwise) if his opponents were engagaing in the same conduct?"
Jeff Wagner

"The discretion of a Judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown. It is different in different men. It is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, passion. In the best it is oftentimes caprice; in the worst it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable."
Lord Camden