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Lock 'em up, Judge Albright* Doug

It appears that you have been watching " Law and Order" too much! Has it ever occur to you that some of those probation clients could be innocent and the system is broken? By the way, where are going to put all of them? In some federal new world order dentention camp, since the State govenment is 3 Billion dollar in debt.......

I have no doubt the judge will give them every opportunity to explain.

Where to put them? Glad you asked! Fence in a area, put them in tents.
Screw the AC and heat.
Good enough for our troops, good enough for criminals! billion in the red, cut out the pork BS.
Cut gas and sales tax, so many NC residents are not boarder hopping, like me.
Round up the illegals and sent them home.
Just read where California is strapped with 2.8 billion dollars to care for illegals.
wonder how much it cost us in NC?
Never happen? It makes sense!

The entire "innocence" discussion seems to revolve around subjective notions of justice and misses the point completely. What folks don't seem to understand is that our legal system is about process. To deprive one of life or liberty, the government must demonstrate to a jury or a judge guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The Constitution does not require a 100 percent guarantee of guilt - only that the procedural prerequisites be met. Moreover, courts do not find people "innocent", rather, only that there is not sufficient evidence to find them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It is this process that protects us from government. Legislatures certainly can provide higher levels of protection, as North Carolina has done with the innocence project, but it is not required by either the North Carolina or the U.S. constitutions.

Furthermore the argument that we have "innocent" people in jail ignores the fact that the average felon commits numerous (the late Prof. Ernest van den Haag estimated as many as 100) crimes before they are caught and convicted. Given the statistics about the number of crimes that the average felon commits for which they are not punished, I don't think that it makes much sense to talk about justice, as justice, in an ontological sense, would require us to put felons under the ground, not simply in jail.

Finally, as to lack of space for bad guys, the reason for this shortage is that government officials don't seem to understand that a fundamental job of government is to keep people safe. This means that government should first fund law enforcement and jails before, say, spending money for tea pot museums. Folks in office don't seem to understand that meaningful activity ceases when law-abiding citizens are not secure.

Connie, I removed your last post.

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Connie, I removed your last post.* Doug

Good for you Doug! I just love it when so-called conservatives applied their free speech rules......

It appears that you miss the part about the NC Bar trying to disbar her over free speech again from a poltical campaign, sorted like your comment....... Other than that ......that is a story that a news association should cover, do you not agree? ........