The report shows while there were 8 trials of 1526 cases, and 5942 traffic cases, there were also issues 2452 bench warrants issued. For the most part, bench warrants are issued for failure to appear. The summarized jail time for sentencing and warrants in 2007 was 137,018 days. Fines and fees summarized $511,989. Community service and credits for jail time were summarized with negative figures, so those are not useful figures now to consider the consequence and effects. "-..
Certainly the figures are alarming. And that is the case without delving into profiles, racial, economic or age characteristics. What seems certain is less than constitutional integrity. The figures are alarming in comparison to findings of Court statistics nationwide related to "innocence"- whereby 94 % of accused are decidedly guilty without doubt, and more than reasonably so. To them I say"- Do the crime, you'll do the time"-.
But then there is the nebulas, the 6% who are not guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. There seems a 99% certainty that they will face jail time. This despite constitutional protections and assurances, which are often obscured in misapplied practices.
--excerpt "Protecting the Quality of Life, Eliot Gould, First Judicial
Candidate, Sun News of Santa Fe , March 2003
It is a liberty right, the right to seek public office. It is an instilling thing to have a vision that justice be served equally for all, rather than the badly broken system that is. And as that vision be so denied, it need be corrected.
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