Re: Not always joking, it seems

D.F. Manno wrote:
> In article
> <synthfilker-71C488.20203016032008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Joe Ellis <synthfilker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> D.F. Manno <dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> jamesd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>>
>>>> We really need a system where in straightforward cases, in some
>>>> large proportion of murders, if the murderer is arrested red
>>>> handed Friday night, he gets hanged in the public square at noon
>>>> Saturday.
>>>
>>> In other words, you want to repeal a large portion of the Bill of
>>> Rights.
>>
>> You know, that's not what he said at all, and I suspect you know
>> that as well as anyone.
>>
>> It would require a sea-change in jurisprudence, but yes, that COULD
>> be accomplished WITHOUT repealing the Bill of Rights. Might be more
>> realistic to call for two weeks as a minimum though.
>
> Try reading the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendment.
>
>> Cases that were NOT straightforward obviously would not receive this
>> expedited treatment. The chief burden would be accurately determining
>> the limits of "straightforward".
>
> SCOTUS doesn't like "arbitrary and capricious" in death penalty cases.

Not to mention the question of who determines its "straightforward
obvious". 
One of the points of our judicial system to to keep anything from being 
dispossed of as "straightforward obvious".

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