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- Title
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF OUR CRIMINAL LAWS.
- Authors
Gemmill, William N.
- Abstract
The article presents information about faults with the administration of criminal laws in the U.S. An ex-president of the United States has declared that the trouble is with our court procedure, which he says is a disgrace to the civilization. Another has declared, with much emphasis, that the fault is with the judges, who are either corrupt or are so blind to the problems of the time that they obstruct progress and deny justice to the great body of people. The remedies proposed for all these ills are as varied as the ills themselves. Some point to what they call Great Britain's model court system; others demand that the judges and their decisions be recalled. Some would have judges appointed for life; others for short terms; others would have no judges at all. By reason of the fact that our judges are in middle life and their experience in the trial of cases is equal to or greater than that of the English judges, they dispose of more business during the same length of time than is disposed of by any equal number of judges in Great Britain.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CRIMINAL law; LEGAL judgments; PRESIDENTS of the United States; COURTS; JUDGES; PUBLIC law
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p698
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1132648