|
|
 |
 |
|
 |
|
Report Comment
"Dunking justice
In its 1983 Barefoot v. Estelle decision, the Supreme Court justified the virtual infallibility of psychiatric predictions of “dangerousness” in part by quoting the California Supreme Court in People v. Murtishaw, 1981:
“The court distinguished cases, however, where "the trier of fact is required by statute to determine whether a person is dangerous,'" in which event, "expert prediction, unreliable though it may be, is often the only evidence available to assist the trier of fact." ”
Oh. You mean like the old test to determine if a woman was a witch. They tied her up and threw her into a deep enough body of water. If she floated, it meant that the water rejected her as unholy, and they could burn her. If she sank and drowned, well then, she was innocent and her soul was going to God. No harm, no foul.
Yup, the Court knows that the old justice is best. "
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
