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> So, yeah. I hope I don't ever have to go to court. It's like a mashup of Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Stephen Colbert. I highly recommend going to a court

by da1 11y ago

> So, yeah. I hope I don't ever have to go to court. It's like a mashup of Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Stephen Colbert. I highly recommend going to a courtroom and just observe a trial. The level of dishonesty, stupidity and incompetence is tremendous. At the jurisdiction where I did that trials have all audio recorded. I saw the judge asking to stop the recording, basically saying out loud that the defendant was guilty because he felt it (basically he was creepy), resume the recording and then make some bullshit excuse to validate what he already had decided on a hunch. I never had much respect for people involved with the law. I lost whatever little respect I had left that day. I was actually recording audio (probably illegal and criminal) so at home I confirmed it just in case I was under some kind of delusion.

MistahKoala 11y ago
Why didn't you anonymously leak it?
- da1 11y ago
  Because I was identified before getting in and I was the only person not involved in the trial there. I would be in serious trouble. That laptop's disk went kaput so eventually I lost it (this might have been 6 years ago). I did come back but never heard anything that outrageous. When the judge says "stop recording" my heart sank because I realized that recordings were not an accurate description of what happened there. Recently I read about a case where a judge convicted a witness, just like that. Eventually it was overturned but now that judge is at the European Court of Human Rights. Convicting the witness without an extra trial is far more serious and nothing came out of it... Edit: Court name was wrong.
  - chris_wot 11y ago
    That can only mean it was Helena Jäderblom. There is only one judge from each country :-) but that's dreadful!
vijayr 11y ago
It is amazing that so many societies in the world are able to function well, considering the pathetic nature of their legal systems.

by da1 11y ago

MistahKoala 11y ago

Why didn't you anonymously leak it?

da1 11y ago
Because I was identified before getting in and I was the only person not involved in the trial there. I would be in serious trouble. That laptop's disk went kaput so eventually I lost it (this might have been 6 years ago). I did come back but never heard anything that outrageous. When the judge says "stop recording" my heart sank because I realized that recordings were not an accurate description of what happened there. Recently I read about a case where a judge convicted a witness, just like that. Eventually it was overturned but now that judge is at the European Court of Human Rights. Convicting the witness without an extra trial is far more serious and nothing came out of it... Edit: Court name was wrong.
- chris_wot 11y ago
  That can only mean it was Helena Jäderblom. There is only one judge from each country :-) but that's dreadful!

vijayr 11y ago

It is amazing that so many societies in the world are able to function well, considering the pathetic nature of their legal systems.