CrimLaw

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Police and the Law:

(1) Police can flood a courtroom and stand in the hall so that jurors have to walk past them to get into the courtroom. Still, it's not prejudicial because a jury might think that each and every single one of them was going to be called as a witness. And the jury might also think they were mirages or that they were newspaper men who diguised themselves in uniforms so they would have a better chance of getting into court so they could get a story.

This reads an awful lot like an appellate court covering for an obvious mistake on the trial court's part. The shame of it is, the facts of the case almost certainly would have led to the same result if the judge had done the right thing¹.

(2) Here's an officer who can't be shut up. And he's gonna keep getting paid if they keep trying.

(3) What happens in England when you are having a watergun fight and you hit a passing police officer thru an open window in his car? You get maced. Ouch! Just imagine what must happen over there if you throw snowballs at school buses.



¹ I am not saying that the police should not have been allowed to attend. They are citizens just like everybody else and should be allowed to attend an open trial they are interested in. However, the judge should have disallowed a large uniformed presence during the trial.

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