[Am-info] Do you think Kottar-Kelley will delay ruling until a Democrat is president?

[Hans Reiser]

Paul Rickard wrote:

>========== On 2002.10.20 08:45 PM, Hans Reiser typed: ============
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>>If that is what she is doing, it may be the right thing, sad to say.
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>   No. There are no guarantees in this life, and that's too big a thing 
>to bet on. I'm sure somewhere there's a limit on the length of time a 
>judge can take to hand down a decision. Right? It's still 2 years and 2 
>weeks until the next presidential election, remember... And a good 27 
>months before anyone elected there would take office. I know a case can 
>drag on for years and years with appeals and motions and hearings, but 
>nearly three years for one judge to make a PUNISHMENT ruling with no 
>other variables? What about the Sixth Amendment, "In all criminal 
>prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public 
>trial..." ?
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This is something widely ignored in practice.   It is also not a 
criminal trial.

The amount of delay before trials just gets worse and worse, and the 
current average case seriously violates that amendment right now.

We need to cut judicial pay, eliminate court reporters, cut courtrooms 
down in size (keeping just a few large courtrooms for those rare cases 
where more than a handful of people attend), and multiply current number 
of judges by 5.  Do you know most judges have 300 cases pending at a 
time.  There is no way in hell a judge can write a good opinion on that 
many cases, and the result is that quality of justice sucks badly.  If 
you go to a court of appeals, they don't even read your brief, they 
don't have time to, they give it to their clerks to summarize for them, 
and then the clerks don't always read them fully or read both side's 
briefs.  Better to have cheaper judges with more time.

But hey, some people don't even get trials, lawyers, explicit charges 
filed, etc., when they are jailed in this country, not if they are 
outside the herd (arabs).

> A corporation is considered a person, so the same should 
>apply. I just don't see how any judge can justify a delay of that length. 
>She's splitting hairs, not waiting on a new administration.
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