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A banker from Greeley, Colorado said it appeared to him that justice can be influenced by money and he expressed sympathy for farmers who felt betrayed when they lost federal support. He cited both the JonBenet Ramsey and O.J. Simpson cases to support his beliefs that justice can be influenced by money. "If you have the best money can buy, it appears to me you can get away with a lot more. It's far more difficult to convict somebody," he said Monday. "I believe the government does a better job of protecting the rights of the affluent ... than it does for the normal citizens in this country." As the pace of jury selection at Terry Nichols' trial quickened, potential jurors in the second Oklahoma City bombing trial provided mixed reviews of the American justice system. Distrust for the nation's justice system is growing. Lawyer controlled legislatures are ineffective in drafting laws that govern American citizens seeking protections and immunities for themselves. In Alabama for instance, the lawyer controlled legislature passed an Act 95-648, Disclosure of Campaign Contributions, that directs the Alabama Supreme Court to draft rules to implement provisions for disclosure of contributions to judicial campaigns and the mandatory recusal of judges in certain events. The lawyer controlled legislature could not pass a law that stool upon face value; the lawyer controlled legislature granted the judicial branch the right to draft rules that defined the statute. There exist, in Alabama, a judicial rule committee for every law passed by the legislature and some judicial rule committees that the legislature is unaware. According to J. Mark White, a Birmingham, Alabama lawyer and chairman of the Alabama Supreme Court's Standing Committee on Rules of Conduct and Canons of Judicial Ethics, Act 95-648, contains substantial constitutional issues. The committee, comprised of experienced lawyers and judges, spent many hours trying to develop rules to enforce the statute. White said, "The statute requires filing of certificates of disclosures within time frames inconsistent with existing rules and statutes." Lawyer judges do not like to be told to change their rules. (a) The board of commissioners of the Alabama state bar may organize, create and establish a state law institute to be known as the Alabama Law Institute as an official advisory law revision and law reform agency of the state of Alabama.
Alabama Law Institute claims to be an official advisory law revision and law reform agency of the state of Alabama. However, please note the following. The Alabama Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act, Code of Alabama, 1975, Section 26-2A-1, is the product of the Alabama Law Institute and the work of a committee appointed by the Alabama Law Institute, which included attorneys, probate judges, law teachers and a representative of the Alabama department of pensions and security. The chapter embodies separate systems of guardianship to protect persons of minors and persons otherwise incapacitated. The chapter is designated a "Uniform" Act for the purpose of aiding courts and other individuals, in construing this chapter, to find similar statutes in other states and court decisions construing those statutes in developing a general body of law to carry out the purpose of this and similar acts. The general policy supporting "uniformity" is that uniformity of these acts among the various enacting states will enhance the probability that the purposes of these acts will be achieved in our mobile society. In other words to enhance the purposes of the lawyers that control the state and its legislature. The Judicial Branch of government is actively engaged in the business of drafting laws and rules of court, without an important and legal faction of the people - the Pro Se advocate. |
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