Message from @Undead Mockingbird
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In Canada, courts will require the defense to disclose all exculpatory evidence.
This is a disaster.
even so
even with all this shit
the courts are still applying the law to a degree of fairness
and to the extent that the laws themselves remain fair
the courts generally remain fair
if you allow your legislature to pass these laws, yes, justice will suffer
so don't allow them to pass these laws.
Now, you have the added advantage in the U.S. legal system that the constitution speaks to this.
The changes in courts that have been pushed through in recent laws are some of the most dramatic erosions of due process we have seen in a century.
The supreme court has also tremendously expanded the protection of the accused
And you are acting like it's no big deal?
as it regards access to a defense attorney, the rules of evidence
We are going to see hundreds of thousands of men falsely convicted, because activist lawyers are busy plugging all holes through which men have been able to defend themselves.
This is one of the most horrendous developments in decades.
I honestly can't believe what I'm reading.
Then make that argument loud and clear to people
people who don't already agree.
I am making that argument right here, right now.
And all I am getting is fog.
I agree that they are perverting it
and that thousands of people have already been victimized
I'm just saying that it ain't the courts doing it.
It's almost everyone else's fault but the courts.
No offense, but I feel like you are not arguing in earnest.
I feel like I am getting a heap of BS.
You've been talking this whole time about _legislation_
except in the case of Zuker
I've been giving you a whole list of concrete examples, and all I feel I am getting is hyperbole.
in the U.S, the Congress makes legislation
the innocence project is 7 years old
If you don't want to honestly debate me, dont.
the post*
I found that 73% of the cases on their site involved rape in some way
Yes, the article is a little older.
All indicators are that it has become worse since, not better.
I'm not arguing against that