taylor (01/10/83)
Why do lawyers who use legal loopholes to allow murderers back on the street to kill again, not feel guilty. If lawyers do not feel depressed enough to commit suicide over the murder they could have have prevented, by not using every loophole the law allows, why are they not at least depressed enough to stop using the loopholes? mike taylor
upstill (01/11/83)
What is the difference between a loophole and a legitimate legal maneuver? To a lawyer, they are the same. Why? Because the definition of a right and proper move is "one that is within the law" and the proof of propriety is that it stands up in court. Thus, there is no such thing as a loophole in the sense of an act which is legally proper but morally wrong. The law IS right.
berry (01/13/83)
#R:wivax:-203900:zinfandel:11700004:000:341 zinfandel!berry Jan 12 11:16:00 1983 What you have to remember is that courts have nothaing at all to do with justice. They are courts of LAW, not justice. If the law says all rapists with red hair who whistle 'Dixie' during their arrest go free, then go free they shall. It is the task of legislators to ensure that administration of the laws shall approximate justice.
bentson (01/15/83)
The American courts have two functions: to hear cases of law and to hear cases of equity. It's in this second role that the courts can issue injunctions, etc. to prevent or right a wrong. It's in this role that the courts are specifically concerned with justice. (One should note that this dual function is being merged with the addition of laws controlling what the courts can do in cases of equity.) But as was pointed out, the legislators should ensure that the laws are also just.
notes@zeppo.UUCP (10/17/83)
#R:wivax:-203900:zeppo:12300001:000:1 zeppo!Anonymous Jan 11 09:15:00 1983
notes@zeppo.UUCP (10/17/83)
#R:wivax:-203900:zeppo:12300002:000:112 zeppo!Anonymous Jan 11 09:16:00 1983 I suppose that a desire to be Sir Thomas More is appropriate to this newsgroup, considering how he ended up....