tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278366793340877738.post1012984617796018824..comments2023-11-02T10:43:15.185+00:00Comments on DENVERSTROPE: Why The CPS Is, Unfortunately, WrongUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278366793340877738.post-36717994235178684562010-07-23T17:43:26.233+01:002010-07-23T17:43:26.233+01:00Sometimes, tris - just sometimes, mind - I wish I ...Sometimes, tris - just sometimes, mind - I wish I was a Scotsman.<br /><br />I'm not being cryptic. I know that Scotland's justice (and education) systems are better than the rest of the UK's ;)<br /><br />Apart from individual cases of the "compassionate" release of "terminally" ill mass murderers, of course. But that's wasn't justice, that was politics.Jon Lishmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272058035800593800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278366793340877738.post-23140416275447892432010-07-23T12:09:52.379+01:002010-07-23T12:09:52.379+01:00Good post Denver.
One of the worrying things abou...Good post Denver.<br /><br />One of the worrying things about this decision is that it will be seen in a world of “us and them” as "them" looking after “their own”.<br /><br />Of course decisions like this cannot be made on how popular they may seem to be with the general public, but it never helps if the public at large is outraged by the justice system. A straw poll around my area (albeit in another legal jurisdiction) is that it was a fit up!<br /><br />As you say the courts should have decided this. Starmer seems to think that there wasn't enough evidence and who am I to gainsay this? But we have a policeman with a record of violence; a video clearly showing him hitting the guy; and a medical officer who has a dubious record.<br /><br />What more did he want to bring the case given its ‘sensitivity’ that he might have foreseen?<br /><br />We don't have a CPS in Scotland; we have Procurators Fiscal whose job it is to decide whether bringing a case will be a travesty of justice, a waste of expensive court time, or perform a genuine public service.<br /><br />I don't know if your CPS does that, but it does seem to have difficulties finding its butt with both hands if all it could manage out of the entire parliament was 6 thieves!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com