"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me."
~ Martin Niemoller
Supreme Court Takes Another Bite Out of Constitutional Protections Against Double Jeopardy
"The Supreme Court recently weakened constitutional protections against double jeopardy in Blueford v. Arkansas, a homicide case. The 6-to-3 decision was written by Chief Justice Roberts. It allowed a defendant to be retried for murder — not just manslaughter — even though the jury forewoman had reported that the jurors had unanimously rejected murder charges and were deadlocked on the lesser manslaughter count."
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Make of it what you will, but in this case the six men on the Supreme Court ruled that the Fifth Amendment means nothing if you can make up a clever excuse to ignore it, while the three women on the court disagreed.
Never, never expect "justice" from a white man's "court" -- particularly a "court" he labels with the superlative "supreme".
A justice system in which the state makes the laws, enforces them, prosecutes them, hires the prosecutors, licenses the defense attorneys, pays the judges, builds the jails (and contracts them out to private entities), pays the wardens and the guards and eventually the parole officers ... is not a unbiased system.
http://www.thedailybell.com/3939/VIDEO-17-Year-Old-Honor-Student-Jailed-...
Sam