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“Two Tracks of Justice – One For The Connected and Another For The Unwitting General Public”
The following, which ought to be as unsurprising to you as it is to me, was originally posted at Philly.com.
An investigative report on Philadelphia Traffic Court portrays it as a place where ticket-fixing is rampant, with “two tracks of justice – one for the connected and another for the unwitting general public.”
People who worked at Traffic Court, including the judges or their relatives, routinely had tickets fixed, the report said.
While Traffic Court workers or family members had an acquittal rate of 84 percent, the public overall had an acquittal rate of just 26 percent, according to data analyzed by Chadwick’s team.
According to former Senior Judge Hogeland, DeAngelis also urged him to fix tickets.
“This is Philadelphia. We do things a lot different in Philadelphia,” Hogeland, also certified as a district judge in Bucks County, said she told him.
Justice McCaffery said his only intent was to make sure that an out-of-county judge would hear his wife’s case because a city judge might know she was his wife, even though her last name is different, and be put in a “bad position.”
The report, commissioned by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille, says Traffic Court staff identified the offices of U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, chairman of the Democratic Party in Philadelphia, as a frequent “requestor” of such “special consideration” – an allegation that Brady denied.
Submitted by Joe
“Two Tracks of Justice – One For The Connected and Another For The Unwitting General Public” is a post from Cop Block – Badges Don't Grant Extra Rights
2012-11-25 14:02:44
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