Texas high court creates integrity unit

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Omni Rex Draconis


No, it means "too lazy to type in three words".

I laud any efforts made to kill fewer innocent people. I don't think bragging about this is really appropriate, Sloww.

Posted in a Texas courtroom - "Only 12 days since our last wrongful death penalty conviction."

What reference is that from? Your opinion? That shows you can't do math. Do the numbers. An average of 15 a year. 405 executions divided by 26 years . Not every 15 days. And again, you have innocent people locked up and aren't doing enough. Not as much as the place you keep trying to run your mouth about.

[Wezil]

And we have freed the wrongfully convicted. Now how do you do that once you have killed them Sloww?

Any legal system created by man will make mistakes. If you think DNA is the magic bullet that will prevent ALL wrongful convictions in the future you are sadly mistaken. Particularly in a state that thinks it is okay to execute children and the mentally retarded.

I'm sorry Sloww, but as great as the state of Texas may be this is not one of your prouder aspects.

[Omni Rex Draconis]

I, like most Canadians, am unhappy to hear that someone has been imprisoned unjustly. We have had several high profile cases recently. The common thing about all those stories is that the victims of injustice are alive to tell about it.

All the DNA evidence in the world does crap for you when you are buried in a box in Texas.

Oh, and the number 12 I just made up to fit my imitation workplace safety poster. Lay of the trigger, Slowwy.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Wezil
And we have freed the wrongfully convicted. Now how do you do that once you have killed them Sloww?

Any legal system created by man will make mistakes. If you think DNA is the magic bullet that will prevent ALL wrongful convictions in the future you are sadly mistaken. Particularly in a state that thinks it is okay to execute children and the mentally retarded.

I'm sorry Sloww, but as great as the state of Texas may be this is not one of your prouder aspects.

You have your opinion. I can't think of a child that's been executed, although it's well-documented that gangs use children to commit murder, knowing they'd get off. "Retarded" could be debated.
DNA is the best that is out there. So what's your point?
There's a good chance that the next advance will come from Southwest Medical here in Dallas, but that won't be good enough either, will it?

[Asher]

There's a good chance that the next advance will come from Southwest Medical here in Dallas, but that won't be good enough either, will it?

No.

Speaking of Dallas. Just saw the video of the "bait car" that the Dallas cops planted. Some career-criminal car thief took it and raced from the cops at high speeds through a residential neighborhood, killing an 84 year old woman.

Maybe Southwest Medical can invent a new brain for those cops to tell them high speed chases in a residential neighborhood is stupid, and even more stupid when they have the capability to remotely disable the car that is running from them...

[SlowwHand]

Sometimes you're an idiot. You act like pursuit accidents only happen in Dallas. In fact, the general rule is to break off from high speed pursuit.
Keep on having the same ignorant opinion, It's just Texas, and we have no rules. Morons.

[Asher]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Sometimes you're an idiot. You act like pursuit accidents only happen in Dallas.

As far as I know, Dallas is the only city that still engages in high-speed chases in residential areas on a car where you've got a video camera inside it and the ability at any moment to disable and lock the car doors remotely.

[SlowwHand]

Read up. !) No one can lock my truck remotely. 2) I'll kiss your ass and give you 20 minutes to deaw a crowd if a high speed pursuit hasn't happened outside Texas. Make it the USA.
You're just talking crap.

[Asher]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Read up. !) No one can lock my truck remotely.

Uh, they can lock the bait cars (in this chase) remotely. The cars are wired with mics and cameras and satellites. The cops know as soon as it is stolen and they can immediately kill the engine and lock the doors remotely. They instead chose to chase the car at high speeds through a residential area, where the suspect then struck and killed and 84 year old woman.

That's pretty unique to Dallas, I'm sure.

2) I'll kiss your ass and give you 20 minutes to deaw a crowd if a high speed pursuit hasn't happened outside Texas. Make it the USA.
You're just talking crap.

I am not talking just about high speed pursuits.

I am taking about:
1) High speed pursuits in a residential neighbourhood, which I'm sure most forces have banned (I know they're not permitted here)
2) High speed pursuits of a vehicle which the police can AT ANY TIME remotely disable the vehicle they are chasing

The key here is that the chase is unnecessary since the car can be safely disabled by remote control. In this case they didn't even try to, they went on a chase in a neighborhood at high speeds. The cops finally requested the car be disabled seconds before he struck and killed an 84 year old woman.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Asher
You've obviously never seen a Club Fed in Canada. Cry me a river.

Canada has a very robust appeals system and frees people as new evidence comes up.

I watched a show that showed prison in Canada, told the wife if I ever decide to go on a crime spree it will be in Canada.

ACK!

[Wezil]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
DNA is the best that is out there. So what's your point?

Is it 100% perfect Sloww? No more wrongful convictions - ever? Or are you okay with an innocent being executed every now and then so long as you get the baddies?

My point is so obvious I refuse to explain it further.

I can't think of a child that's been executed, although it's well-documented that gangs use children to commit murder, knowing they'd get off. "Retarded" could be debated.

This really is too easy. How about a mentally retarded child Sloww? I'll give you both in one.

Johnny Frank Garrett (December 24, 1963 – February 11, 1992) was a Texas inmate executed for the rape and murder of Sister Tadea Benz, on October 31, 1981. His notoriety stems from the fact that he was only 17 years old when sentenced and has also been described by many human rights organizations as severely mentally handicapped. The state of Texas has come under heavy criticism for allowing both a juvenile and mentally handicapped individual to be executed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Frank_Garrett

[Wezil]

Nope, no problems in the Texas court system:

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A family sued a justice of the peace Wednesday, complaining that he ordered a man to paddle his teenage stepdaughter in the courtroom and threatened to convict her of truancy if he didn’t.

The lawsuit filed by Mary Vasquez and her husband, Daniel Zurita, described the paddle provided by Gustavo Garza, Cameron County justice of the peace, as fashioned from a thick piece of lumber.

“The word ‘club’ could be fairly used as a substitute for the word ‘paddle’ here as it appears to be something which may have been cut from a (2-by-4) piece of lumber,” attorney Mark Sossi wrote in the family’s petition.

“The paddles provided by the judge are of such heft and weight that an individual striking an animal with one might be reasonably reported for cruelty to an animal,” the family said.

In a story for Thursday’s editions of The Brownsville Herald, Garza declined to comment on whether he has people spanked in his courtroom. He also said he had not seen the lawsuit.

The lawsuit asks a state district court to stop the spankings and remove Garza from office.

The family alleges that Garza told Zurita to strike his 14-year-old stepdaughter repeatedly on the buttocks in open court. It says the judge told Zurita the girl would be fined $500 if she wasn’t paddled.

Zurita said in an affidavit that he didn’t feel as though he had a choice and that when he was done, the judge told him he had not struck the girl hard enough.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/06/05/5781186-ap.html

[Garth Vader]

Originally posted by Wezil


This really is too easy. How about a mentally retarded child Sloww? I'll give you both in one.

Two wrongs make a right?

[Apocalypse]

Until the Texas courts stop protecting those pedophiles, they don't have integrity.

[SlowwHand]

I'll tell all of you what, screw this.
I'm tired of the ignorant generalitiies about Texas, the miltary and the USA. I don't need this crap.

I'm out of here, at least for a while. Enjoy your fantasies.