"Yeh Guv', but I dain't do it, honest!"
The magistrate, peering down at Crusher from the bench looked stern as he said;
"I told you the last time that if you appear before me again I would send you down for six months."
Scenes like that are enacted every day in our overcrowded courts as justice is meted out by a hard pressed system.
But what if for once in his life Crusher is telling the truth and he really didn't do it ?
The case hardened magistrate who already knows Crusher's "previous", is already biased, even though most magistrates try to be fair, which brings in a second safeguard - trial by jury. Whoever the person is standing accused before a magistrate had every right to ask for, and be given, trial by a jury no matter how minor the crime. If Crusher opted for this method those that will decide if he is innocent or guilty will be twelve ordinary people picked at random from the electoral role - none of them will know Crusher nor will they know of his past misdeeds. They will be weighing the evidence and judging him on the one alleged crime only. Unlike the magistrate they will not pre-judge him. These basic three principals of; innocence until proven guilty, trial by jury and the defendant's past history not being disclosed before trial are the pillars of our criminal justice system.
These principals ensure that everyone, from whatever background, receives a fair trail. They also ensure the police and prosecution have substantial evidence before taking the the defendant to court. If Crusher is deemed to be innocent by the jury, much to the annoyance of the police and the prosecution, he has one last safeguard from persecution - double jeopardy. Once he has walked out of court, a free man, the centuries old rule of double jeopardy means that he can never be tried again for the same offence. He can live out his life in peace free from the mental torture that a lazy, vindictive, prosecution service can haul him back to court and rehash the trial. The system is fair and final for all.
The Home Secretary, Blunkett, has decided to meddle with this system and his recent White Paper has proposed the scrapping of double jeopardy and the right to trial by jury for minor offences and serious fraud crimes. If his proposals are passed in Parliament, there will be few fair trials as a defendants past history will be read out to the jury and a character with an unsavoury past, such as Crusher, will already be considered guilty by the jury before the trial begins - that is if he is allowed to get past the magistrate who will, like the jury knowing his past will have decided his guilt.
So whay does Blunkett want to destroy such a fair legal system and replace it with an inferior one ? The answer, yet again, is the European Union "behind the scenes" imposing its system of law called "Corpus Juris". Britain will have to comply with the rest of the E.U. and is having to sacrifice a legal system which is the envy of the world and one on which many democracies outside Europe have based their legal systems on. Blunkett, or any other government minister, will not tell you the truth that this is E.U. inspired, but when he has finished and the E.U.'s "Corpus Juris" is fully implemented, there will be no trial by jury at all, no double jeopardy and anyone from the moment they are arrested will be considered guilty until they can prove their own innocence.
Not very fair is it.
THIS IS JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF THE GROSS BETRAYAL OF THE BRITISH MONARCH, THE BRITISH NATION AND THE BRITISH PEOPLE BY THE ARCH-TRAITOR HEATH.