The Wheels Of Justice Grind Slowly … Or Do They?

In a single page of my local newspaper the other day I found the following…

• A bad person was finally convicted of killing a neighbor in December 2001.
• Another bad person’s execution for killing his girlfriend and her two sons on New Year’s Eve 1993 was delayed.
• Another bad person who killed a man and his son in 2004 has been awaiting trial since March 2005. (This one is especially interesting because the defense attorneys have been using every trick in or out of the book to delay the trial and are now asking for dismissal because their client has been denied a speedy trial.)

Do you see why I cleverly chose, “The Wheels Of Justice Grind Slowly” as the subject of this blog posting?

I feel compelled to go into a tirade:

Our System Of Justice Always Takes a Long Time To Do Anything … Or does it?

Enter Lindsey Lohan…

Our Lindsey has been sent to jail 5 times since 2007. The latest time she was sent to jail was a few days ago. This time she was welcomed into jail to serve a 30 day sentence but was released less than 5 hours later because the sheriff said the jail was overcrowded.

The sheriff wants us to know that he thinks we are stupid because he issued the following statement, “She was treated like every other inmate who has gone through similar circumstances”.

The Smartfella? has 2 questions for the sheriff…

• Does “similar circumstances” mean they too were sent to jail 5 times since 2007?
• If the jail was overcrowded, that means there were probably other people who had been in jail longer than less than 5 hours. Why could not one of those long termers have been released instead of Lindsey?

Guess our good sheriff never heard of the accounting method of First In First Out.

Would I kid u?