{"id":39956,"date":"2013-12-09T21:59:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T04:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/09\/the-problem-with-justice.html"},"modified":"2013-12-10T07:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:05:22","slug":"the-problem-with-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/09\/the-problem-with-justice.html","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"
… Is that, sometimes, (1) it requires a jury of civilians to understand a variety of arcane and intentionally cryptic accounting processes and laws, and (2) it requires the government to go up against, not some schmuck public defender but legions of highly-paid, highly-trained lawyers who will take any possible flaw in a case and trump it to get things thrown out.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Another Batch of Wall Street Villains Freed on Technicality | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone<\/a>
\n Why the GE Capital convictions were quietly overturned, and what it says about justice on Wall Street\n <\/p>\n

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… Is that, sometimes, (1) it requires a jury of civilians to understand a variety of arcane and intentionally cryptic accounting processes and laws, and (2) it requires the government to go up against, not some schmuck public defender but legions of highly-paid, highly-trained lawyers who will take any possible flaw in a case and … Continue reading “The Problem with Justice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44674,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/28\/the-attack-of-the-hezbollah-trained-venezuelan-middle-school-drug-cartel-warrior.html","url_meta":{"origin":39956,"position":0},"title":"The Attack of the Hezbollah-Trained Venezuelan Middle School Drug Cartel Warrior…","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Aug-14 10:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Attack of the Hezbollah-Trained Venezuelan Middle School Drug Cartel Warriors!What's unclear is whether or not these are the savage border-crossers that are carrying Ebola or not. 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