US Justice System Legally Destroying Lives
                                                                        

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Steven and his wife may have messed up but they handled the situation 1000 times better than the State of Florida and the US Justice system ever will. They were a family, something the US Justice system doesn't understand.  And what is most important they were happy together. The pictures don't lie. Until State of Florida,  Judge Larry  Schack & US Justice system destroyed this family on Jan. 09 2007 when they sentenced Steven to 16 Years prison time.  Prior to the legal system entering this picture, Steven, Tiffany and Trent stood a good chance of making it as a couple and a family.

Our Constitution intended that only elected lawmakers be permitted to create law, yet judges create their own law in the judicial system based on their own opinions and rulings. It's called case law, and it is churned out daily through the rulings of judges. When a judge hands down a ruling and that ruling survives appeal with the next tier of judges, it then becomes case law, or legal precedent. This now happens so consistently that we've become more subject to the case ruling laws made by the lawmakings of judges rather than tng bodies outlined in our Constitution.......... it is estimated that 70 percent of low- to middle-income citizens can no longer afford the cost of justice in America. What would our Founding Fathers think?

That would be O.K. if the judges would read the facts of the case they are presiding on, and then make a decision. In most cases they do not read, therefore they are making their ruling solely on the prosecutor's theory and base their opinion and ruling on it  bypassing  the  constitution.



Danica and Trent

This case-law system is a constitutional nightmare because it continuously modifies Constitutional intent. For lawyers, however, it creates endless business opportunities. That's because case law is technically complicated and requires a lawyer's expertise to guide and move you through the system.

The judicial system may begin with enacted laws, but the variations that result from a judge's application of case law all too often change the ultimate meaning.

By John F. Molloy

http://www.jail4judges.org
/JNJ_Library/2005/2005-11-29A.html


            Trent

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
-Mahatma Gandhi

 

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
Aristotle

 


It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. ~Bob Enyart

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~Edmund Burke

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr.


Trent

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.
[Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
- Horace (Quintus


 
Steven with his dog Rucky

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines
with even more brilliancy than justice.
- Cervantes

Let us be merciful as well as just.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One can not be just if one is not humane.
[Lat., On ne peut etre juste si on n'est pas humain.]
- Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues, Reflexions (XXVIII)

In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce


Thats hysterical

 

http://www.inthesetimes.com
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THIS IS FUN    

"If the motto ‘and justice for all’ becomes ‘and justice for those who can
afford it’, we threaten the very underpinnings of our social contract."
- Chief Justice Ronald George California Supreme Court, Annual "State of
Judiciary" Speech, 2001

 


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The state calls its own violence law,  
but that of the individual crime.

Was it  just another selective enforcement of the law as well as cruel and unusual punishment contrary to the Constitution?

G
iven the facts that Steven was 27, his wife 20 and their son Trent 4 old and that they are a family unit. How can the judge pass a sentence on Steven of 16 years?
 
Here are a few exemplary cases tried around same time and one by the same judge.  Larry Schack.  

Port St. Lucie, Fl
Michael A. Brown charged with
 lewd and lascivious battery with 13 year old girl plus Grand Theft, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia ...got Time served in county jail (14 months) plus 4 year probation.

West Palm Beach
Brian J. Taylor  (Teacher)

Had 2 year sexual relationship  with 16 year old student.
Case was dropped.

Martin County, Fl
Judge Larry Schack sentence Ari Ravon Stanberry
for lewd and lascivious battery plus 3 prior felony to 2 years  Sex Offender Community Control and 4 year probation.

For the same thing Judge Larry Shack gave Steven a 16 year sentence. After reading the full story below, can someone explain how that can happen,  explain  to his 4 year old son, Trent.

This case is a travesty of justice.   We are not endorsing Stevens's conduct.  What he did was illegal, and he deserved to be punished for it.  But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the punishment has to be proportionate to what any other person, similarly situated, would receive.

So was it just another selective enforcement of the law as well as cruel and unusual punishment contrary to the Constitution's 8th amendment?

And then the judge has the audacity to say this to Steven:


" I certainly hope this was worth it for you because it has destroyed your life, this young lady's life and caused permanent damage to your son."

Contrary to the Judge's above statement,  it was this young lady's  school system and State of Florida  that destroyed her life nine years earlier, ( did anyone know she was out of school since she was 11 year old.   And if so, why didn't anyone intervene?)


Giving 16 years prison sentence to a man who had consensual relations with his wife when she was almost 16 year old,  but not hearing witnesses or acknowledging what they have said about circumstances
that surround this incident it is preposterous. That is when State calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
The Judge must have been sleeping on the bench if he didn't hear what Steven has done for Tiffany and his son from early pregnancy.
She was victimized long before Steven arrived in her life and not as portrayed by Judge Larry Schack. Steven in fact was a positive influence in her life. He encouraged her to get her life back on track and when she was with him she was on her way to a normal life. When Trent was born  no one cared except one man who realized that mistakes had been made and he accepted the responsibility of this from early pregnancy. He took Tiff to the doctor for checkups, he was at the hospital for the birth, he cut the umbilical cord. He put his name on the birth certificate without any proof at the time that he was the father. 
He was helping and care for the boy.  

This all came crashing down once the state got into it.  

Yes,
most certainly, Judge Schack's  decision and sentencing is destroying Steven's life, his marriage, his child's relationship with him. 
H
ow has justice been served in this situation when everything around this case lies in tatters, lives ruined and torn apart.
Prior to the legal system entering this picture, Steven,  young lady and Trent stood a good chance of making it as a couple and a family.

This man went  through hell the past 4 years and has already served 3 1/2 years in jail.  After all, he is not just a number in the penal system,  he is a husband, a father of a 4 year old,  a brother and son to someone.  He will be the first to admit that he made a mistake and he did everything in his power to try and make things right afterwards. 

We realize that the penal system was setup to be punitive in nature and not remedial. But 16 years sentence is extremely excessive for the nature of the offense committed.

The disparity of treatment in these cases  as compared to the sixteen year sentence that Steven  received is blatant and very obvious.  How can this be explained with any cohesiveness and reason?  How can some people "walk" and some serve a good part of their lives behind bars?  Why is the judicial system not accountable for such disparity of sentencing and why isn't there more transparency in the system?

The individual state's need to revise their statutory rape laws to reflect what is going on in the twenty-first century and the sexual behavior of teen's and young people today.  Until that time comes,  sex education classes should be more all-inclusive in  explaining the legal consequences of premarital sex by teenagers not just the caveat to "use condoms".  There are many more legal consequences to teenage sex than just STD's and unwanted pregnancies.

Aside from the above consequences, spending many years in prison is one very big failure of the system. It serve no purpose.   Few teenagers and their parents are aware that serious jail time is a very real possibility in underage sex.    Rather than changing the law in the failed system, the system is further punishing the offender.     In addition to jail time, as things presently stand, the offender, once released is put on a Sex Offender Registry and in a very real sense, this "sentence" lasts a  lifetime and its repercussions follow the individual for all of his life.    True pedophiles need to be put on such a list, not young people who are behaving in the norm for their age bracket by today's way of life. 

16-year sentence for consensual  sex.
ONLY IN THE USA, THE KINGS OF HYPOCRISY

The State of Florida is a creator of social problems,  Tiffany for example, having her own problems, she cant take care of  their child.  The State of Florida ironically gave custody to her parent.  The very same people who neglected her.  What will happen with Trent?  And at the end Steven? He worked hard full time, attend college at night and was attempting to start up his own business was taken away from all this. Hi will be 41 years old when he'll get out of prison. No education, no work experience. Label of pedophile on his forehead that will have to carry for life. What will happen to him? Probably another social problem because it is a good  chance that he will not be able to get  a job.  His parents  probably not going to be around anymore to guide him or help him.

Changes in sentencing law and policy, not increases in crime rates, explain most of the six-fold increase in the national prison population.  And “one size fits all" mandatory minimum sentences that allow little or no consideration for individual characteristics as in case above.

Is that how we solving a problems. Is that right thing to do?
All the wrong choices. How can we be the leader to the world if we are becoming a laughing stock of the world.

We need to take a good look at the our own back yard our own living room our kids room. They are watching nip/tuck for breakfast, lunch and diner. The most sexual tv series I have ever watch on tv. And then we are sending them to 16 years in prison for having consensual sex?

We also have the nerve to send out complaints every year to 180 nations abut human rights violation? Mr. President, House of Representatives, Senators, the People of The United States,  take a good look in to our prisons and you will never again complain about human right violations.

It is a fact that 70-80% of US prisoners within one year are back in prison. In Europe for example the number is reversed, 80% of them get job and become normal law abiding citizens. Why is that?  And why is crime rate in Europe 3 times les per capita. And crime within the prisons is almost non existing.  I'll tell you why. Give prisoners some dignity, something to look forward when they get out.  Prisoners in Europe work in every prison, making furniture, sheet metal work, welding, farming, teaching etc.  They feel productive, they are productive.  They learn new skills, develop working habit.
What comes out of US prisons?   Vast majority come out as poorly educated criminals, street fighters, drug traffickers and even murderers and they are back in prison within 6 to 8 months.
Spending many years in prison is one very big failure of the system. It serve no purpose.

The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced.
 

Remember Genarlow Wilson case?

Wilson released after two years behind bars for teen sex conviction

  DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. - The Rev. Al Sharpton embraced the mother and sister of a man serving a 10-year sentence for consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old, joining hundreds of supporters Thursday demanding his immediate release from prison.
Genarlow Wilson has been in prison for two years for taking part in the sex act when he was 17 years old.
“This boy is not only her son, he’s your son, he’s my son,” Sharpton told the cheering crowd from the steps of the Douglas County Courthouse. “We’re here today because what affects you affects all of us.State Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan said Wilson’s punishment was excessive and should be reduced, just like the prison sentence for former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, which was commuted Monday by President Bush.
“Genarlow is the face of many other young black men who have received injustice,” Thomas Morgan said. “Somebody’s got to stand up for them.”
The crowd held signs that read “Free Genarlow” and “Justice Now.” The issues of race and class came up in many speeches.
“If he had a different complexion and a different connection, we wouldn’t be here,” Sharpton said.
Law changed since sentence
Wilson, now 21, is serving a 10-year mandatory sentence for aggravated child molestation stemming from a 2003 New Year’s Eve Party where he was captured on videotape receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old girl. The law has since been changed by Georgia lawmakers, but the state’s top court said the new law could not be applied retroactively.
Wilson was also charged in 2003 with raping a 17-year-old girl at the party, but a jury acquitted him of the charges.

Five other male partygoers accepted plea deals in the case. Wilson rejected the plea offer.
On June 11, Monroe County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson ruled that Genarlow Wilson should be freed from prison and not listed on Georgia’s sex offender registry. The judge called the 10-year mandatory sentence “a grave miscarriage of justice” that violated the constitution.
Attorney General Thurbert Baker immediately appealed that ruling, drawing criticism from civil rights activists.
The Georgia Supreme Court is set to hear the latest appeal in October. Wilson’s lawyer, B.J. Bernstein, had sought to get Wilson released on bond while the appeal moved forward.
But Douglas County Superior Court Judge David Emerson said Wilson was ineligible for bond under Georgia law. Bernstein is appealing that decision.

Thus, Wilson went back to court yet again, this time on a writ of habeas corpus, which means "release the body."  The defense argued he was being unfairly held because his incarceration was unconstitutional.   This time, a judge agreed.  The court ruled Monday that Wilson's confinement violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

The judge courageously wrote:

If this court or any court cannot recognize the injustice of what has occurred here, then our court system has lost sight of the goal our judicial system has always strived to accomplish ... justice being served in a fair and equal manner.

 

Steven’s punishment was excessive to,  and should be reduced just like Vilson's,  just like the prison sentence for  former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, which was commuted  by President Bush.

Unfortunately, we cannot get the attention of civil rights activists as Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson or Attorney like B.J. Bernstein,  and it appears that without high-profile help, situations like this remain unknown and out of the public eye and without media attention people stay in prisons. 

As  All Sharpton said  in Genarlow Willsons case.
“If he had a different complexion and a different connection, we wouldn’t be here,”

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~Max
Stirner, The Ego and His Own
 

....it could happen in your life It could be your son, daughter,  brother, sister or your wife.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not
become a monster ... when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into
you." -Friedrich Nietzche


Trent

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its
individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
- Ramsey Clark


Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~Judge
Sturgess


   Steven with his son Trent

 

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on
the amount of money he has."
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Griffin v. Illinois,
373 U.S.12,(1964),

 


        

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices.
This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
~David Dudley Field

 

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs
for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in
the hands of the government. ~Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in The Match!

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government
becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to
become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~Justice
Louis Dembitz
Brandeis

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~Earl
Warren


Trent

A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing
but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the
law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.
- Thomas Wilson

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- Henry Louis Mencken 

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than
severity.
- Cervantes

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
[Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero


Steven & Trent 2003

He who is only just is cruel.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of
the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you
say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
--Bishop Desmond Tutu

Changes in sentencing law and policy, not increases in crime rates, explain most of the six-fold increase in the national prison population.  And “one size fits all" mandatory minimum sentences that allow little or no consideration for individual characteristics as in case above.

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch
either of them being made. ~Otto Bismark

 

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