How can money influence court cases? Are the judges payed for? The Jury? How can someone get 29 years for armed burgulary when nothing was stolen and no one was harmed? Some one like OJ Simpson can murder in cold blood and buy their way out of it. A lawyer or politician can get out of a DUI with reckless driving charges. This kind of thing happens all the time. How can we fix this? How can a person of average income get that kind of representation?
2006-06-14 23:33:44 · 3 answers · asked by captpcb216 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Cant be done....the justice system will always be tilted toward those who can afford better representation and can afford expert witness's. the government provides legal counsel for those who cannot afford it but the competence of such is usually woefully lacking...Justice is tilted toward the wealthy as is everything else in a capitalist society...he who has the gold makes the rules...I have considered this many times and there are no clear cut answers to making the system better...I suppose there could be limits set to what the government was going to spend to prosecute a case thereby granting limits to what the accused could spend but I'm not sure this is just if a man is defending his life shouldn't he be allowed to defend himself with all that he has?..then perhaps a limit to what the government can spend....ehhh...not an easy problem to solve.
2006-06-14 23:45:32 · answer #1 · answered by djmantx 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Mandatory Minimums.
Why not? I think if you take some of the power away from teh guy that controls the court room, IE the Judge that's making 200k a year, then you can start to level the playing field.
2006-06-15 08:28:54 · answer #2 · answered by r0b_a11en 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The short answer is that in a capitalist system, money is power and power is influence to affect all around you, including the judiciary (as well as elections).
2006-06-15 06:37:57 · answer #3 · answered by Sarah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋