I can explain it. The date is 1792 and the place is Paris, France. The États généraux has been shut down and replaced by a more constitutional body. 1793 follows where all political discussion is resolved by the guillotine.

A standby jurist, who sat with the jury but did not vote, was interviewed on Fox. He argued that the jury reached the only decision it could because they did not know all the facts about the murderer and/or were told they had to ignore them, and because of the narrow technical legal formulations of the prosecution. He seemed to be satisfied with the decision. There appears to be a mixture of incompetence and false standards across the board in this case. Atlas is shrugging/being murdered.

Kate Steinle was murdered in San Fran Sicko, Kalifornia, the city and the state explaining to me why bleeding hearts want to make nice to a Hispanic illegal repeat offender felon.
Did the kidnap torture take place in Chicago? If so, the autistic teenage is white and his sadistic tormentors are black. Maybe the judge is black.
Me dino recalls how O, when he was the not so great yet powerful, pardoned several black convicted felons because he felt his race gets picked on.
Are these two cases~well, three, including the former Racist-In-Chief's skin pigment pardons~indicative where society is headed?
Maybe not. Still, we could still be going down the tubes anyway. For one thing, is the swamp really gonna get drained? Or will it drown us?

Legal minds operate in a delusional, classroom environment, rather than the reality the rest of us dwell in. This approach is instilled in them to get them to approach legal issues dispassionately. The theory is that this is the only way to avoid a society too ready to "burn the witch!"

The downside (and it's often a big one) is that the jurists begin to approach each case before them as a challenge to see if they've exhausted all conceivable arguments in favor of the defendant. The obsession with "beyond all reasonable doubt" is more important to many jurists than justice for the victim.

One restriction that should be removed is the omission of a defendant's criminal history, treating each offense in isolation. The intent is not to color the jury's opinion by painting the defendant as likely guilty going in, but sometimes habitual violent felons avoid due punishment as a result.

Sometimes a decision is the fault of the prosecution, as was the result of the Steinle case. The prosecutors were so obsessed with getting justice for the Steinle family that they spent little time building a case for the alternative of involuntary manslaughter. Given that the victim's wound was a result of a ricochet, the manslaughter should have been easy to prove, but the obvious exaggerated stretch to first degree murder undermined any credibility, given that the jury was unaware of the defendant's past history.

I've long felt like I was stranger in my own country. It's almost as if everything we have held dear has be set aside in favor of those things we loathe, like someone is pushing us to see how far it can be taken before we explode. The fact that this illegal literally got away with murder of an American citizens is appalling, but sadly nothing new; it happens everyday with/without the spotlight of a court case and national media.

I question whether we can right this ship.

We live in a post rational world. When I retired from NASA I continued teaching; astronomy, physics, and computer programming. While I taught a couple of graduate level courses I also taught freshman physics. Each year the new students became increasingly difficult to accommodate as a growing number were functionally illiterate. What's more they could not accept the desirability of logical thinking. Feelings were more important than facts. Even the fundamental "laws" of physics were opinions and subject to negotiation. The final straw took place at the school library. I found a stack of books on critical thinking sitting in the trash awaiting their destiny with the book burners. I salvaged them and added them to my personal collection. I asked the librarian why these books were being thrown out. She said they were misogynistic, homophobic, and anti diversity and such writings had no place in an institute of higher learning. I confronted the board of regents at a faculty meeting and got much the same answer. It was clear that the real objective was to teach what to think as opposed to how to think. I concluded that there was no place for me in such an institution and the board agreed. We parted ways. The most insidious form of destruction of a civilization is decay from within. It can begin with the education system and from there it metastasizes to the news and education media and ultimately to the courts. We are witnessing the death throws of a republic and it is of little consolation that it lasted over one hundred yeas longer than the founders thought it would.

""Creature from Jekyll Island" provides a game plan for where the globalists (Obama and company) are taking us...very probable...but nasty

There is some sort of emotional attraction to collectivism which seems to be pervasive. It is at the root of this dysfunction. I would love to know WHY collectivism, socialism, fascism etc is so attractive that people put up with it....

The worst problem created by critical thinking is that when a conclusion is reached then a decision must be made based on understanding of the nature of reality. Most often if good results are desired this automatically directs the individual to the fact that he must now act (work) to make it happen. Faced with that choice most people prefer to make life work by enforcing work onto others and pilfering from them. This requires either accepting the fact that the individual is either immoral (which they don't want to do) or that they re-evaluate their criteria or rework the argument until they can accept that A is not A but B and it is not their fault.

We are headed down the rabbit hole, and both Dems and Republican establishment are leading the way. I became worried years ago when Kissinger said if they could control oil, food and banks, they could accomplish one world governent in two years. Did not happen, so then turned to brainwashing in the public schools and setting race against race.With Hillary and Obama having years to push the Alinsky model, they are making the society over into a Marxist/communist society by playing on the stupidity of society. We are headed for a dumbed down, one-world, land of sheeple, with the elite few running the show. Why, because people have allowed themselves to be stupid and uninformed, while inferiors like Obama scheme with Soros and his money, to destroy our society.

I don't know if they are "leftists" so much as unwitting anarchists. Of course, collapsing society first then rebuilding in a totalitarian (socialist based) model may be the long term plan -- or the natural and logical consequences.

Gee, do you suppose the courts are corrupt? Do judges buy their jobs either directly in cash with political contributions to election funds or indirectly, under the table? What? Here in the US?

Even without corruption, the system itself is basically flawed, as I write in https://www.scribd.com/document/36710...

First off, I'm not sure there is a much better country, but I could be wrong. For years I have been saying I expect a three fold revolution. A political one ( it began in Ma. with the election of Scott Brown ) which only lasted until Elizabeth Warren bought the seat and now with Trump. Second a Financial one with wealthy people moving their cash and refusing to pay taxes. Lastly a violent one which nobody would want.
I only wish the courts would apply the laws of the land and put these felons away for good.

When it comes to the examples you cite, I cannot conceive of a rational person not being confused by those examples of utter irrationality. We seem to be reverting to the days of Gehgis Khan.

The problem with society today is that people no longer drink from the skulls of their enemies.

where is society headed, straight into the toilet. CYA

There's no society.

Yes the judge in the case with the autistic boy was both black and a member of the Islamic judicial group.

The general loss of Empathy is startling.

I often feel like we need a punishment whereby the person is given a drug that prevents them from using their arms for a period of MONTHS. Requiring them to have someone Feed/help them. Make them live in helplessness, maybe to develop some Empathy.

But as you noted... There is no justice. This would be considered TOO CRUEL (by people with questionable Empathy values)... And here we go.

Can someone BUILD the Gulch already. My bags are packed, I am ready to go!

I understand it, and quite frankly it terrifies me. It is Atlas Shrugged - a society which has abandoned the principles of liberty and free markets and is moving toward a socialist hell while the other socialist nations are falling like dominoes economically. Pretty soon, the whole world is going to collapse and we're going to see a world-wide calamity that will dwarf WW II. I earnestly hope I'm wrong.

The only thing that I can come up with is that by letting this scum out it enables the family members of the victims access to trash for vengeance.

It makes no sense. It seems to me that the left is so hell bent on destroying this country that they will do anything to create anarchy. Troubling times we live in.

abaco (one of the islands I did not visit when I sailed in the Bahamas)
any way our society just like the country is going down hill quite rapidly.