Tagged: officer of the court

“In a system that holds out the oath and the promise of truthfulness in the courtroom as key means of achieving both coherence and factual accuracy, any practice through which participants lie repeatedly in violation of a sworn duty destabilizes the system by showing truth to be a subordinate value. When the lying involves judges and attorneys who are themselves ‘officers of the court’ and under a professional obligation to maintain the integrity of the system, the corrosive potential multiplies. If prosecutors tolerate perjury, then the threat of perjury prosecution loses its efficacy as a truth-enforcing mechanism. If jurors systematically violate their oaths, jury verdicts are always suspect. If judges rule in favor of police officers who are obviously lying, the credibility with which judges invoke the coercive power of their office is diminished. Ultimately, systemic lying has the capacity to undermine the justice system to a fatal extent by replacing the mechanism of truth with an inferior and dangerous substitute, the lie for a ‘good’ cause.”

Source: Julia Simon-Kerr. “Systemic Lying.” pg. 39-40. September 27, 2014.

“This Article attempts to provide a basis for removing from racism the veil of protection it sometimes has received from the First Amendment…”

Source: Carla D. Pratt. Should Klansmen be Lawyers? Racism As An Ethical Barrier to the Legal Profession. 30 Fl. State Law Review 857, 864. 2003.

“May an [officer of the court’s] personal moral code in any way contradict the profession’s code of ethics? May an [officer of the court’s] political and/or religious beliefs and/or agenda be contrary to existing law?”

If one’s culture believes that biologically, God made them superior over all others, is it truly possible for that culture to live by the expression that “all men are created equal”? Or is that just a bunch a bullshit to make us believe that one day, that will be the actual reality in which we live and treat our fellow [wo]man?

Source: Carla D. Pratt. Should Klansmen be Lawyers? Racism As An Ethical Barrier to the Legal Profession. 30 Fl. State Law Review 857, 863. 2003.