Justice System

     I just spent this morning sitting in court.  NO, I haven’t been charged with anything.  But the court system is a public service and you have a right to go any time and observe the proceedings.  I was actually amazed at how many people had to show up on this day for court hearings.  I live in a small rural community, but the courtroom today was full of people.  Now there were no trial proceedings, but just regular cases.  At one point about three sheriff deputies came in with six inmates in shackles.  They too had to have their “hearings” before the judge.

     Now what really surprised me about the cases was this:  EVERY case got postponed to a future hearing date.  And I was only there for a couple of hours!  As each case was called it was agreed to by the Assistant District Attorney along with the defense attorney to have the judge set a new date for the hearing.  Now I’m only estimating that there were maybe fifteen to twenty cases that were heard during the time I was there and ALL of them were postponed to a future date!  Now add to that fact that some of these cases that were being heard today had already been postponed to today from another date in the past!

     It appears to me that NOTHING was actually done during this court session.  So I asked myself:  WHY is the justice system SO back logged on cases in the court system?  It appears that part of the reason is because NOTHING gets solved!  It is only postponed to another date to be dealt with at that time.  That just doesn’t make any sense!  Try applying that principal as a guideline within other businesses and see what happens!  Nothing would ever get accomplished.  Sadly the ones who usually get effected the most because of this and are often hurt the most are the “victims”.  And when a “solution” is finally reached in a case, REAL justice is never done.

     Maybe I’m not looking at this matter with complete clarity, but it seems the only people who are getting any gain from the present judicial system are the court personnel, judges, and attorneys!  Perhaps a line from the movie “Back to the Future” really makes good sense.  “The judicial system moves much faster now that attorneys have been abolished!”

     It seems we’ll have to await that future time when true justice is available for all:  A time when we won’t have to wait for months or years to get things done.  But until that time we’ll have to deal the best we can with the system we have.  Remember:  We’re Only Human!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"Accept what you are and THEN

do everything you can to get better."