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I lived in a small town, and the cops were convinced that people were selling drugs at the Burger King.
So they had one of the new cops go undercover there for three months, and all they managed to get was some idiots who had a gram of weed (in a medical state) and five vicodin pills. The judge threw it out and warned the town about wasting the court's time.
that sounds like a very cool judge.
He knew he had a lot bigger fish to fry than two kids who stole drugs from their grandmother to get their coworker to stop bothering them about it.
One of my favourite legal principles I don't see applied enough "de minimis non curat lex", "the law does not concern itself with trifles".
Sounds like it. I wish more people were like this.
From what I've seen, most judges are pretty straightforward with that shit. A couple are annoying about it, but it's mostly the police force that pulls shit like that, and sometimes the prosecution as well.
Something about the police strikes me as odd. If a judge can stay uncorrupted by power, why cant police? Assuming that this is the reason for their actions.
The problem isn't straight-out corruption.
It's wonky incentivation.
Judges that are not measured by how many people they send to jail will always be, on average, less trigger-happy than cops who are.
I can see how this would make it worse on average.
Unfortunately judges can be corrupted too. They can accept bribes to rule favorably and their clerks can charge unsolicited fees to lose files or giving access to judicial decisions before they're scheduled to release.
Absolute power currupts absolutely.
Although I get that it is possible, I dont think it is as common as police force corruption is.
One factor is that judges are not normally stopped from joining the bench because their to smart, police officers are
Really? Can you elaborate on that? A source might be helpful too.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
even outside of money, ideological bias is one hell of an issue
funniest joke of all time in my countries they released terrorist to satisfy radical political parties