{"id":10991,"date":"2011-09-03T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T15:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10991"},"modified":"2011-09-03T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T15:26:32","slug":"qotd-the-american-judicial-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/03\/qotd-the-american-judicial-system\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The American judicial system"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Whatever one thinks about Conrad Black\u2019s guilt or innocence, there is no doubt that he has proven his claim that America\u2019s legal deck is stacked in prosecutors\u2019 favour: Even before his conviction, he had to endure a genuinely Kafkaesque ordeal of assets being frozen and seized by the FBI, email and phone lines hacked, backroom deals with sleazy witnesses (David Radler, please call your office), and outrageous leveraging of blunderbuss statutes to generate dozens of charges on the basis of tangential procedural indiscretions. The very institution meant to protect innocent people from this machinery of state &mdash; the private legal sector &mdash; is an old-boys\u2019 club whose members often seem just as concerned with seven-figure paydays as with keeping clients out of jail. The fact that Mr. Black happens to be a famous person makes the claims more credible because, as the author writes, if all this could happen to Conrad Black, it \u201ccould happen to anyone, and often does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Kay, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/09\/03\/jonathan-kay-on-conrad-black-and-his-new-book-a-man-in-full-pay-back-mode\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Conrad Black and his new book: A man in full pay-back mode&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2011-09-03<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever one thinks about Conrad Black\u2019s guilt or innocence, there is no doubt that he has proven his claim that America\u2019s legal deck is stacked in prosecutors\u2019 favour: Even before his conviction, he had to endure a genuinely Kafkaesque ordeal of assets being frozen and seized by the FBI, email and phone lines hacked, backroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,28,41],"tags":[343,86,267,529],"class_list":["post-10991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","category-quotations","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-criticism","tag-justice","tag-lawyers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Rh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10992,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991\/revisions\/10992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}