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Friday, July 2, 2010

Criminal justice often stinks

Part Two of Jim Rix's true crime book, Jingle Jangle, presents a number of essays critical of the "criminal justice game" relative to his cousin's case:
Part Two: The Game
Chapter 12. Doing Time
Chapter 13. Hometowned
Chapter 14. What to Do?
Chapter 15. Ethics
Chapter 16. Ouija Science
Chapter 17. Puppet Show
Chapter 18. Whorehouse
Chapter 19. The Color of Justice
Chapter 20. Dingle Dangle
Chapter 21. Baby Blue
Catch-22. The Gila
Yesterday, for Costco purchasers particularly interested in aspects of Part Two, I penned a couple of limerix suitable for Jim to inscribe in their book:
The obscene self-reliance
Of the men of junk science
    Assuages all doubt
    So juries go out
And assent their guilty compliance
Criminal justice often stinks
Convicting the innocent more than it thinks
    Reasonable doubt
    Thrown out
And the jury all go for drinks

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