Tuesday, November 11, 2014

How All Judges Should Write



The Majority Opinion in this case is legalism run riot, it is conjecture ballooned into theory, theory stretched into assumed facts, imagined facts made the basis for non sequiturs, and non sequiturs built into a decision which makes a mockery of the law, a travesty of justice, and one which will cause laymen to wonder if the courts are intended to seek truth or to play charades with the safety of the people. The courts should have but one goal and this is to apply reason to facts and from the amalgam produce a result which vindicates truth.


- From Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno's dissent in Commonwealth v. Holton (1968)

[Woody Allen version.]

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