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Judge Says Legal System Is Corrupt

In 2003, Judge Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit gave a speech at the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School in which she states her opinions as to why the court system is corrupt. Here is one of her quotes about prosecutors, "An increasingly visible and vocal number apparently believe that the strategic use of anger and incivility will achieve their aims. Others seem uninhibited about making misstatements to the court or their opponents or destroying or falsifying evidence," she claimed. "When lawyers cannot be trusted to observe the fair processes essential to maintaining the rule of law, how can we expect the public to respect the process?" Unfortunately, in the nine years since Judge Jones gave her speech, the issue of prosecutorial misconduct hasn’t gotten any better.

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