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This idea of a legal bug is interesting. It feels like The United States unofficial 0th amendment is the enshrined concept of getting off on a technicality. I
by gorgoiler 5y ago
This idea of a legal bug is interesting.
It feels like The United States unofficial 0th amendment is the enshrined concept of getting off on a technicality. It comes with the territory with a written constitution.
OJ, sexual relations with that woman, Capone’s unpaid parking tickets, hanging chads… or anything heard by the Supreme Circus.
A huge part of the legal system, or at least the part that goes to trial, is exploiting the equivalent of bugs in the legal code.
- tmoravec 5y agoAnother way to think of "legal bugs" is corruption.
- objectivetruth 5y agoRespectfully disagree -- these examples are mostly how the system is supposed to work to protect the rights of the individual. OJ was found not guilty by a jury of his peers who felt there was reasonable doubt to his guilt. Sure, to the vast majority of us, he obviously did it and skated, but I'd guess there are 100 or 1000 non-publicized cases of an innocent person getting railroaded for every OJ. Clinton paid a massive political price for his weasel language and related evasions, and some people think that price included Gore's loss of the Presidency in 2000. Capone was brought down for unpaid taxes, not parking tickets, and that was as a result of a federal task force brought about following years of incredible gangland violence in Chicago. I wouldn't call these bugs.