[lbo-talk] Re: Law/Politics

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What's your point? You think the existence of a
crooked judge or several means that we have to give up
the ideal of the rule of law? After all, they caught
this charmer. Here in Chicago, about 15 years ago, the
US Attorney's Office put away roughly a dozen really
crooked state court judges, slimeballs who'd (in at
least one case) take money to fix a murder trial. My
current boss, the head of the litigation dept (my
dept) at my law firm, was the Chief Deputy AUSA who
ran the investigation at the time. What we in Shytown
don't know about judicial corruption isn't known. So
what? That doesn't mean that there is no point in
talking about law as opposed to politics. Besides, in
my book, corruption, extortion, and bribery is not
politics. Nor is witness intimidation. 

jks

--- Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at enterprize.net.au>
wrote:
>
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/26/1056449343629.html
> 
> 
> Disgraced magistrate to go to jail 
> 
> Melbourne Age
> June 26 2003 
> 
> Disgraced Queensland chief magistrate Di Fingleton
> will lose her job and have to serve six months in
> jail after a failed appeal bid today. 
>

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