Re: Criminal Law in Louisiana

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You are right, Hardy. Nobody cares. Give it up! If the
people who run the government don't care, why should you?
Who appointed you a one-man committe to solve the problems
in the criminal justice business? Answer: NOBODY! Give it
up! Get a life! Who cares about those guys in jail. The
very fact that they are in jail is sign enough that they
have no rights. Why should we give them rights?

Mac

On 9/05/06, Hardy Parkerson, Atty. wrote:
> Dear Counsel.Net Friends,
>
> In Louisiana we have a serious problem that nobody
> seems to care about. Nobody that is, but me and the
> thousands of men and women sitting in jail, unable to make
> bond, and awaiting a trial which never seems to come.
>
> For example, just today in Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish,
> Louisiana, there were a total of 317 felony and capital
> cases set for trial in two courtrooms before two judges.
> That is an average of 158 defendants per judge and per
> courtroom; and since the courtrooms are small and are
> right across the hall from each other, there were wall-to-
> wall, shoulder-to-shoulder people, not only in the
> courtrooms, but also standing in the aisles and in the
> second-floor lobby and in the hallway of the local
> courthouse. The jury boxes were filled with defendants,
> and a lawyer could not even find a place to sit in the
> courtroom, even in the audience, much less inside the
> cousel rail. And get this! I will report later whether
> or not either one of the two said judges and courtrooms
> holds even a single criminal jury trial this week.
>
> The Criminal "Justice" System has broken down in
> Louisiana, and nobody cares. Nobody! Oh, yes! Nobody but
> me and the thousands of men an women in jail, unable to
> make bond, and awaiting a trial which never seems to come.
>
> I visit prisons all the time.
> They're filled with men
> Whose greatest crime
> Is that they haven't got a dime.
>
> They languish in their prison cells,
> Unable there to make their bails;
> For the higher that their bonds are set,
> The more money the judges get.
>
> Presumed innocent, they serve their time;
> Are not convicted of a crime;
> But despairing in their prison cell,
> They plead guilty to GET OUT OF JAIL.
>
> And so, my friends, as you can see;
> That's not the way it's s'posed to be!
> But sorry to say, it is a fact,
> That's the way it is in Louisianiraq.
>
> And this is the tip of the iceberg. Please, please,
> please, America! Help us down here in Louisiana! Call
> upon President Bush and the Federal Government to take
> over and run the Criminal Justice System in Louisiana,
> like it once took over and ran for years the Louisiana
> Prison System.
>
> There is more to it all than this, but this is something
> to think about.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Hardy Parkerson, Atty.
> Ronald Reagan Democratic Candidate for Governor of
> Louisiana (The Arnie Schwarznegger-Kinky Friedman
> Candidate for Governor, taking back the Nation for the
> Taxpayers and reforming the legal and judicial systems,
> one state at a time.)