There is now video evidence that medical examiner Michael West has been known to create bite marks in capital murder cases in order to give "evidence" to the prosecution that they can use against defendants. The courts and prosecutors even conspired to keep the video evidence of West's actions out of the hands of the defense. Will someone please remind me, once again, how it is that "criminals have too many rights" when it comes to the courts? People like West are the reason why, short of adopting reforms inspired by the Mosaic Law regarding the prosecution of perjury and standards of evidence, I am increasingly finding it impossible to support the use of the death penalty in the United States.
Why perjury should be punished with the sentence that the defendant would receive
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As you have suggested in the past, a return to Mosaic law in cases like these would do much to restore justice to the justice system, as well as throw a wet blanket at crime.
I don't want to go back to the Mosaic Law in general, but I think there is a lot that we could learn from it. Our system is nowhere near as good as people think it is.
Sorry if I put words in your mouth Mike...wasn't my intent...yes I agree that the Mosaic law is instructive but many/most of those laws aren't terribly applicable these days.
Some are good for clean living, others are just a haze to show stupid humans how imperfect we are.
I knew what you meant, but sometimes it's important to make it clear in case others come to posts like this later that what I'm advocating is drawing from the Mosaic Law where it makes sense, not arguing for the establishment of a bona fide theocracy.
What was the old saying?
Oh, yeah.
Hangin's too good for them.
We're rapidly approaching the point where the only solution to being arrested is to not let them take you alive.
Especially if you are guilty.
I am conflicted on this issue.
It was obviously already illegal for West to do what he did. You are just argueing that an increased penalty would have been enough to deter him. I tend to think that any jail time is as deterrent as a lot of jail time. I am too pretty to go to jail.
If nothing else, West should be convicted of the federal crime of civil rights violations.
Here is the conflict: Punishing false accusers is good for the sysem by detering false accusers. But it also encourages false accusers to stick to their story once given, to avoid that same fate. Since the primary focus of the criminal justice system should be to protect the innocent, there needs to be a way to safeguard or make whole a person falsely accused. The best way to do that is to lighten the penalty if the false accuser comes forward and confesses BEFORE getting caught and proven false.
I think it would also be great if false witnesses had to reimburse locked up people for their legal defense, lost wages, divorce settlements, etc.