“The Necessary” is used in “1776” as I recall
A non-US case: The UK Post Scandal
It’s a tale of total corporate psychopathy, a mad Kafka-esque nightmare in which totally innocent subpostmasters, the very backbone of villages and communities, were turned into criminals to cover up the fact that the Post Office’s Horizon computer system didn’t work properly. Each was told by the Post Office that no one else had any problems with the system.
Vast sums were effectively looted from them to make up accounting shortfalls, before they were prosecuted anyway. Distraught subpostmasters were imprisoned pregnant, or still in their teens, or on their young child’s birthday, or in their old age, or in high-security jails where they saw and suffered terrible things. At least 60 have died without seeing justice or compensation; at least four took their own lives. Countless victims were driven into physical and mental problems from which they have never recovered.
And I gather the post office leadership has been seriously dragging it’s feet giving out the ordered compensation, and have been fighting it.
Finally, public pressure (and media accounts) are forcing politicians to address this.
Of course, the compensation will come from the public purse, and the shitty people who prosecuted the innocent will suffer not one iota of financial or other penalty.
Thank you for posting this.
I heard about this days ago and thought it was perfect for this thread, then procrastinated in posting anything, then forgot about it.
I appreciate someone doing what I was too lazy and/or dumb to do myself.
It really does belong here though. It’s insane what happened to those people.
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No problem
Good that at least the Illinois Courts Commission were able to carry out their due repsonsibilities - heh, didn’t know they had it in them.
Weather forecaster and judge: the two vocations where you don’t get fired for being completely wrong.
What is it about rapists that makes judges turn stupid? I’m sure everyone remembers Brock Turner’s judge being recalled from the bench.
Maybe they should have a rule that they have to enter the courtroom in their street clothes and put on their robe before sitting on the bench. I’ve heard stories about judges being pantsless under their robes.
That might act as a disincentive for guys who like rape to pursue judging as a career.
I’ve heard worse. 
Remember the judge who used a…device…while court was in session? Amazingly, he was sentenced to prison.
From your discreetly spoilered link:
I don’t think the jury was whooshed.
And in case there’s doubts about his behaviour…
You’d think semen stench would be a card-tipper.
And people say lawyers are jerks.
Judges are usually lawyers before they get promoted.
Well surely everyone understands that with the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl [Parson is a longtime Chiefs season ticket-holder holder who celebrated with the team at its recent Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City], what’s a minor traffic offense?
Prosecutors said Reid [son of Chiefs Coach Andy Reid] was intoxicated and driving about 84 mph (135 kph) in a 65 mph zone when his Dodge truck hit the cars on an entrance ramp to Interstate 435 near Arrowhead Stadium on Feb. 4, 2021.
A girl inside one of the cars, Ariel Young, suffered a traumatic brain injury. A total of six people, including Reid, were injured. One of the vehicles he hit had stalled because of a dead battery, and the second was owned by Ariel’s mother, who had arrived to help.
Reid had a blood-alcohol level of 0.113% two hours after the crash, police said. The legal limit is 0.08%.
Five of Lucio’s children who were interviewed immediately after the young girl’s death told a Child Protective Services investigator that their mother was not abusive toward them or Mariah, according to court filings. One of her children told the investigator that they witnessed Mariah fall down the flight of stairs in their Harlingen apartment and corroborated Lucio’s account of her daughter’s injuries and declining health in the days after the incident.
But prosecutors did not share those interviews in full with the defense during the trial, which Lucio’s lawyers and the Cameron County district attorney now say was a violation of her constitutional due process rights.
I haven’t heard a lot about this, but if this ruling stands, it sets a chilling precedent (I’m unclear if this is now considered a “decided” matter.)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/opinions/mckesson-supreme-court-counterman-filipovic/index.html
On Monday, the court declined to hear Mckesson v. Doe, a case in which Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson was sued after someone at a protest he organized in Baton Rouge, Louisiana – importantly, not Mckesson himself – threw a rock at a police officer, seriously injuring the officer in the face.
That assault was horrible, tragic and criminal. But it’s not the actual perpetrator — who remains unidentified — who was held accountable. It was Mckesson. That’s who the anonymous Officer Doe sued under the theory that Mckesson knew or should have known that violence at the protests would occur, and should therefore be held liable for his negligence.
Anyone could go to a protest for a cause they don’t like, commit violence, and the organizers of the protest could be held liable even though they had nothing to do with violence.
Mckesson or any other protest organizer, they ruled, could be held liable under a negligence theory for the actions of third parties at their protests, even if those third parties did not act at their direction and even if they had no intention of fomenting violence. Mckesson, the Fifth Circuit ruled, can be held liable even though he did not intend for violence to occur, did not instigate or promote violence and by no account behaved violently himself.
Fifth Circuit, eh? Doesn’t surprise me they’d twist legal logic to support punishing a BLM adherent.
I’m confused… It says that the police officer was suing McKesson, and that the court declined to hear the case. Wouldn’t that be a win for McKesson?