Twitter rant from lawyer on criminal justice system

There is an agency call adult protective services?

 

Right and if home health reported it, they'd be an investigation.

 

Among a many other things.

 

A guy who might have been innocent was arrested on a complaint by another citizen for driving recklessly. Cop might have been biased/stupid/lying/wrong in filling out paper. Guy gets off. Tell me what broke, and tell me what you would like to replace that system with, please...

 

You are assuming pretty much everything in your narrative. The only thing I can find that the cop actually did wrong was miss his court date, which benefited the guy you are claiming he wronged, you know.

 

Are there no Mel Brooks fans in here?

 

The cop was broken. The documentation of evidence was broken.

 

Maybe. Remember your unreliable narrator?

At any rate, the result is what the system is supposed to do. Your broken cop can't get a conviction. That's justice, right?

 

Still don't understand your replacement system

 

Assuming what was alleged on Twitter was accurate, you'd call that justice?

 

Whoa, you're assuming the story accurately portrays what the court decided.

But hey, maybe it isn't. Maybe you're assuming the guy's case got dismissed when it didn't! How do you know?!


No, someone having to pay a lawyer to get a case dismissed that was fabricated is not the system working.

 

The case was kicked. What was supposed to happen?

Another deflection. You are being intentionally obtuse because you don't have a point.

The winning side has to pay for a lawyer under the vast majority of circumstances, except maybe this one, where society would have paid for a lawyer for the accused had he so chosen. If you want to find a bad guy in this, look to the lawyer who charged this family a bunch of money when all he had to do was present mama's selfie and get it thrown out.

 

So, was that yes or no?

 

I'm actually in agreement with you more than I am not. This is one of the few times I am not.

Lawyers make money off of cases. It's what they do. It's not a cop's job to cost people money on alleged trumped up charges. I do see that as a big deal and miscarriage of justice. Sure, the guy can sue the cop and/or the agency he works for, but how long until he recoups his money, if he recoups his money. We're not even mentioning the time, hassle and/or any character damage incurred, speaking in general, all on trumped up charges, allegedly.

 

Yeah, this is your bad.

 

You could allow for a civil action against him.

 

What's faulty about this story line?

 

This is an example of the system working?

 

Hey assface, don't start with the "even if this is true, the system worked", and then try to weasel out with this weasel nonsense.

 

He's supposed to privately take cases for free? Jesus tap-dancing Christ.