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Exhibit A: We all know that in a fair justice system, everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but, just as a matter of speculation, what if the accused are 100% guilty of a crime? Is it “justice” that allows their defense lawyers to find “reasonable doubt” after seven year’s delay? Or to find minute technical differences in evidence in an attempt to discredit witnesses? Seems to me that in these instances, the REAL criminals and what REALLY happened are not on trial - the procedures are.
Perhaps there is room for doubt: is a conviction of 99%, 96% or 85% guilty going to help the REAL victims in a trial? Where is the “Defense” counsel for murdered victims - do we need another counsel group that is allowed to speak for the defense-less (i.e. Counsel C) to clarify technical issues related to what is initially deemed as “inadmissible evidence”?
How can a society progress when it allows gang members to make a mockery of justice? And what is “justice” to a drug dealer / enforcer? Why is it that they have absolutely no respect for law when they commit their crimes, yet fully use and abuse law when it serves their purposes in criminal proceedings? Or is such a trial necessary so that next time they get better at avoiding getting caught for their actions, or finding a better defense lawyer (or heaven forbid, even more defense lawyers) to uncover more unconsequential loopholes? But I digress, since, thank goodness I am not a lawyer, and...
Disclaimer: Note that all people, places and events mentioned above (Exhibit A), and all the above rambling comments above (Exhibit A) are not related to, nor have anything to do with the “Surrey Six Trial” (Exhibit B) which is coincidentally taking place in Vancouver, B.C., starting on September 30, 2013, six years after the original slayings occurred on October 19, 2007 at the Balmoral Tower in Surrey, B.C.
Exhibit B: In this “Surrey Six Trial”, three gangsters are accused in one of the most heinous murders in B.C. history: Matthew Johnston, Cory Haevischer and Quang Vinh Thang (Michael) Le. Together, with Dennis Karbovanec (who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2009) and Jamie Bacon, they are accused of killing Edward Narong, Corey Lal, Michael Lal, Ryan Bartolomeo in a gang-related slaying. Ed Schellenberg and Chris Mohan were also killed as innocent bystanders.
May justice prevail for all of the accused, and if they are not guilty (as they all pled), my sympathy goes out to them. However, if they are guilty (in whole or part), may REAL justice be dealt in this case... but of course, in a legal sense - not in the style that they themselves have become accustomed to...
I wonder what Ed Schellenberg and Chris Mohan would think, looking down at these proceedings...
Quote from CBC’s Royal Canadian Air Farce, “... but I’m not bitter!”
by Joe Defries, brother-in-law of Ed Schellenberg
Vancouver Sun Update on 2 December 2017: “Bombshell Jamie Bacon ruling breaks hearts of murder victims’ families. The families of the two bystanders killed in the Surrey Six drug murders a decade ago have been left disgusted and broken-hearted after the B.C. Supreme Court threw out charges against Jamie Bacon, the man accused of being the mastermind behind the slaughter.
Steve Brown, who lost his brother-in-law Ed Schellenberg, said Saturday that he felt numb when he heard news of the court’s ruling. He said that he is too ‘worn out’ to be angry.
‘There is no trust left. People are just disgusted. They are just disgusted with the whole thing,’ Brown said.”
“The trouble with law is lawyers.” - Clarence Darrow
QuotaBillsLawyers are natural politicians. - Clarence Darrow
A bad compromise beats a good lawsuit. - Saying
Don't judge your taco by its price. - Hunter S. Thompson
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb
The good of the people is the chief law. - Cicero
Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. - Stephen King
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. - Potter Stewart
Law of the Supermarket: The other line moves faster. - Unknown
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. - Herbert Spencer
Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer or an accountant. - Joe Defries
Law of Inflation: Whatever goes up will go up some more. - Kin Hubbard
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. - Jeremy Bentham
Don't judge me. I was born to be awesome, not perfect. - Unknown
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. - Arthur Baer
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. - Albert Camus
Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore. - Unknown
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. - Dalai Lama
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. - Ambrose Bierce
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. - Martin Luther King
Don't judge someone just because they sin differently than you. - Unknown
Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown
Do not judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. - Native American Proverb
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. - Mark Twain
All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for a loaf of bread. - Josh Billings
I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is. - Roy M. Cohn
The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother. - WC Fields
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. - Aristotle
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm
Time is money, especially when you're talking to a lawyer or an accountant. - Joe-kster
Lawyers generally know too much of law to have a very clear perception of justice. - Eliza Cook
The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness. - Ravi Zacharias
My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind. - Les Dawson
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. - Moliere
Law enforcement cannot succeed without the sustained, and informed, interest of all citizens. - Lyndon B Johnson
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. - Nelson Mandela
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. - Agatha Christie
We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them. - Lyman Abbott
The trouble with our laws these days is that the criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. - Unknown
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. - Charles Darwin
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. - Will Rogers
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. - Brendan Behan
Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. - Sri Chinmoy
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein
Some lawyers are like unto the camel, which, before drinking out of a brook, maketh the water turbid with his foot. - Adolphus W Ward
The courtrooms of America all too often have Piper Cub advocates trying to handle the controls of Boeing 747 litigation. - Warren E. Burger
Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. - Robert Whitlow
Honest and peace-loving people shun the Courts and are prepared to suffer loss rather than fall into a Lawyer's clutches. - Peter De Noronha
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein
The denial of an objective moral law based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God results ultimately in the denial of evil itself. - Ravi Zacharias
see also
Legal Section
Justice Is Blind - Part 2
Gun Laws
Legal Assistance For All
Memorial Service for Ed Schellenberg
Surrey Six Trial - Word Search Puzzle
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